Make Me a Programme
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Can a robot host a radio show? Georgia Lewis-Anderson is a conversation designer for voice technology, writing answers to the more human questions that people ask voice assistants like 'what's your favourite food', 'will you marry me' or 'what's the meaning of life'.
As voice assistants become better and better talkers, Georgia is doing an experiment to test whether she can push their chit chat to the limit by making a LoveBot driven by AI that can host a relationship advice radio phone-in.
Building the bot, she unravels how our conversations with computers work, explores ethical concerns, and shines a light on the ways more and more of us are looking to machines to help with our emotions.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, I just wanted to tell you about my new podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | It's called Classical Fix and it's basically me, |
| 0:44.5 | Clemy Burton Hill, each week talking to a massive music fan. I mix them a classical |
| 0:50.0 | playlist. They have a listen, they come in and we just see where the conversation |
| 0:54.1 | goes if you'd like to give classical music a go but you haven't got a clue where to |
| 0:57.8 | start this is where you start search on BBC sounds or wherever you get your podcasts for Classical Fix and then don't click on the |
| 1:06.5 | one with a coffee cup, that's our old feed. Instead, click on the one with my face on it and |
| 1:11.8 | subscribe, subscribe, subscribe, you can do it right now and please tell |
| 1:16.1 | your friends now then as you were. |
| 1:18.8 | Hi I'm Riana Dillon welcome Welcome to Seriously. Each week we feature interesting stories |
| 1:26.2 | told a little sideways and we have a real treat for you this week. |
| 1:34.0 | Hey Siri! Hey Siri! |
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