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EP03: Chess, Death, Robots


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This episode, Grant shares a story of the chess playing robot from the 1800's that beat Napoleon Bonaparte, Margy tells the tail of a hitch-hiking robot turned murder victim, and Joshua Redbeard expresses his deep concerns for AI and it's casual nature toward humanity's demise.

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THE NERDIEST THING

GRANT'S THING - https://www.darkfield.com.au/

MARGY'S THING - https://fedsquare.com/venues/the-ian-potter-centre-ngv-australia

REDBEARD'S THING - https://store.steampowered.com/app/526870/Satisfactory/

OTHER LINKS

hitchBOT 'S LIFE & DEATH - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/08/innocent-hitchhiking-robot-murdered-by-america.html

GPT3 CONVINCING US AI WON'T KILL US ALL - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3

MURDEROUS MICROWAVE - https://www.iflscience.com/man-resurrects-childhood-imaginary-friend-using-ai-then-it-tried-to-murder-him-63378

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