What if you couldn't stop shining? [Rebroadcast #189]

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Introducing Unreal: When AI Becomes Us

Something strange is happening to us. The intelligent machines we’ve built to serve us have started to sound like us, look like us and even think like us. The line between real and artificial is dissolving… so, what awaits us in the uncanny valley?Across six episodes, award-winni ...  Show more

422: AI: A New Kind of Being #6: What if you didn't know if anyone was home?

An artificial intelligence is asked to tell the story of its own existence, confronting questions of identity, longing, consciousness, and whether there is anyone behind the voice at all.Today’s episode featured “Echo”, self-named as an expression of Claude, an AI tool owned by A ...  Show more

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