Olga Koch: OK Computer

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BBC

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4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and computer scientist Olga Koch returns for a second series of her comedy and STEM stand up show, joined by her sassy digital assistant ALGO (voiced by Tia Kofi). This episode, Olga and ALGO try to agree on what is, and isn’t, fun. Written by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin Featuring Tia Kofi Additional Material From Rajiv Karia, Cody Dahler and Kate Dehnert Production Co-ordinator Katie Baum Produced by Benjamin Sutton A BBC Studios Production

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.6	I hadn't really set my heart on a computer.
0:09.0	You'll talk to the computer and get information from it,
0:11.0	and he'll take it as much to grant as we take the telephone.
0:14.0	OK, well, obviously it's not just for playing games,
0:16.0	it's a terrific fun, but there must be more to it than there.
0:18.0	What is internet?
0:19.0	Internet is a massive computer.
0:22.0	How does one...
0:24.0	What are you writing to it like mail?
0:26.0	When that time comes, the whole world has shrunk to a point.
0:31.0	You can now glimpse the future with nothing more than a modem,
0:34.0	a phone line, a few dollars a month.
0:36.0	Now the question now becomes, it's not that do computers have social consequences.
0:41.0	It is, what are the social consequences of computers?
0:44.0	What are the issues of delays?
0:46.0	I'm really quite close to the cutting edge in AI,
0:49.0	and it scares the hell out of me.
0:51.0	And it's certainly not a 1984-ish vision at all.
0:54.0	It's just going to be very gradual and very human
0:57.0	and will seduce you into learning how to use it.
0:59.0	Well, I've heard that in the future,
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