How can AI chatbots be used to create a radio drama? We continue our experiments with AI chatbots to create 1940s style radio dramas with our latest radio drama assisted by bing chatbot ai revealing Sherlock Holmes and Watson's adventures in Hobart, Tasmania. Also, the unusual news of a long-buried Simpsons joke that was recently dug up by an audio engineer and Japan running out of Pokemon cards.

Media Mothership broadcasts live out of Edge Radio studios, Hobart, Tasmania (www.edgeradio.org.au) Fridays 4-5pm (AEST).Listen live on 99.3FM, or streaming/on-demand at YouTube, Twitch (search ‘media mothership’) and Edge Radio.

Episode Links

• Long Buried ‘Simpsons’ Joke Dug Up By Intrepid Audio Engineer | Cracked.com

• Japan Has Completely Run Out Of Pokémon Cards (kotaku.com)
• ‘AI isn’t a threat’ – Boris Eldagsen, whose fake photo duped the Sony judges, hits back | Photography | The Guardian

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We apply Joseph Campbell’s Hero's Journey to our AI created Sherlock Holmes Radio Drama, and then proceed to discuss its application in explaining news stories. Do these texts all hold up to the three main stages of the Hero’s Quest: Departure, Initiation, and Return? Or do they fail any test of heroic storytelling in a mythic sense.

Media Mothership explores the absurdities of modern media and culture. Hosts Dr Craig Norris and Lord Talor Lidstone make sense of the latest media news, trends and research in an informative and irreverent way.

Media Mothership broadcasts live out of Edge Radio studios, Hobart, Tasmania (www.edgeradio.org.au) Fridays 4-5pm (AEST).

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• The Hacking of GPT is just getting started. https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-jailbreak-generative-ai-hacking/
• Anthony Albanese bans TikTok on government devices: What’s next https://www.themercury.com.au/news/national/tiktok-global-bans-what-australians-must-know/news-story/1602b96e5e6df2ee55424432109ff5ed
• Ukraine ramps up calls for Australia's Bendigo-made Hawkei military vehicles https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-13/australia-made-hawkei-military-vehicle-ukraine-bushmaster-russia/102209284

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Continuing our discussion of AI to analyse news stories and fanfiction, hosts Dr Craig and Lord Taylor return to their project to use Chat GPT-3 to generate new stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. This AI 'fanfic' story is then analysed using writing techniques to identify patterns in the writing style and language used by the AI. Our analysis shows that the stories generated by GPT-3 have some similarities to Kowal's MICE (Milieu, Inquiry, Character, Event) model of short story writing in terms of sentence structure, word choice and tone. However, our discussion also reveals that the stories lack depth and character development, which are crucial elements in storytelling. We suggest that while AI can be useful in generating new ideas and content, it cannot replace the creativity and imagination of human writers. AI-generated content should be viewed as a tool to aid human writers rather than a replacement for them.

Episode Links

• Mark Hamill, Star Wars' Luke Skywalker himself, is now the voice of Ukraine's air raid alert app https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-28/mark-hamill-voices-ukraine-air-raid-alerts-mobile-app-missiles/102156322 
• Artificial intelligence is making headlines, but experts are already planning for 'the next big thing' – so what is AGI? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-24/what-is-agi-artificial-general-intelligence-ai-experts-risks/102035132
• MICE & Short Stories — With Special Guest Instructor Mary Robinette Kowal https://youtu.be/blehVIDyuXk

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Google's AI music generator MusicLM is explored in this episode, and we test our ability to distinguish AI from human-made music.

Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership explores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Host Dr Craig is joined by Lord Taylor to discuss today’s topic on Deefake satires, AI chatbots and the impact of AI on pop culture today. As well as our big announcement of our own experiment in this area starting from next show.

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• Text-to-audio generation is here. One of the next big AI disruptions could be in the music industry - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-04/music-industry-artificial-intelligence-text-to-audio-generation/101926950
• MusicLM: Generating Music From Text - Very impressive audio samples : StableDiffusion https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/10mekik/musiclm_generating_music_from_text_very/

• MusicLM: Generating Music From Text dataset https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/
• Google's AI music generator MusicLM has impressed listeners. Can you tell if these tunes were created by humans or an algorithm? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-15/google-ai-music-quiz-musiclm-humans-artificial-intelligence/101967746

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Exploring AI and storytelling on today’s show, Dr Craig and Lord Taylor further show their use of Google Colab to create absurd media. They discuss their attempts to use AI to generate a 1950’s style Sherlock Holmes radio drama, which results in an unintelligible piece of literature.

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Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership explores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Host Dr Craig is joined by Lord Taylor to discuss today’s topic on Deefake satires, AI chatbots and the impact of AI on pop culture today. As well as our big announcement of our own experiment in this area starting from next show.

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• The Hitchhicker https://youtu.be/8eZ1sImDFwE
• Glenn Gers 6 Essential Questions. https://youtu.be/F7i3w6XW_2Q

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Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership explores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Host Dr Craig is joined by Lord Taylor to discuss today’s topic on Deefake satires, AI chatbots and the impact of AI on pop culture today. As well as our big announcement of our own experiment in this area starting from next show.

Episode Links 

• The Last Three Presidents Play ‘Minecraft’ Together in a New TikTok Deepfake Satire | Cracked.com https://www.cracked.com/article_37138_the-last-three-presidents-play-minecraft-together-in-a-new-tiktok-deepfake-satire.html?newsletter-cat=comedy
• Minecraft “Joe Biden blows up Trump's Minecraft House (AI Voice Meme)” https://youtu.be/cKuV2gQeZzw
• The Presidents discuss their top 5 animes https://youtu.be/IkaAZE_UGMo
• The Presidential Zomboys vs. Der Eisendrache https://youtu.be/aoMH0rF2z9g
• NFL Fox Sports at Hiroshima Crazy Footage (AI Voice)  https://youtu.be/_mJUf3noWjQ
• Replika users fell in love with their AI chatbot companion. Then they lost them - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-01/replika-users-fell-in-love-with-their-ai-chatbot-companion/102028196
• Nick Cave slams AI bot ChatGPT: 'A grotesque mockery of what it is to be human' | Mashable https://mashable.com/article/nick-cave-chatgpt

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Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership exlpores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Today’s topic explores the film 'Prey (2022), the latest addition to the Predator film franchise. Host Craig Norris is joined by guests  Max Travers (adjunct associate professor – Sociology, UTAS), and Michael Sweet (PhD candidate – PhD student in law researching alcohol control in the Northern Territory.

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• - Prey trailer: https://youtu.be/wZ7LytagKlc
• - Max Travers University profile:  https://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/sociology/max-travers
• - Michael Sweet Research profile:  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Sweet-4

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Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership exlpores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Today’s topic explores the mid-point and the 1951 radio drama ‘Three Skeleton Key’.

Media news - testing the realism of Jack’s death in James Cameron’s ‘Titanic’ and Cate Blanchett on Tassie footy. 

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• - Three Skeleton Key (1950) https://youtu.be/P2zT2DRFJxE
• - James Cameron Went And Did A Scientific Test To Prove That Jack Had To Die In 'Titanic' https://uproxx.com/movies/james-cameron-scientific-test-titanic-jack-death/  
• - MythBusters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPDxtclZzVU  
• - Cate Blanchett on Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Go to Tasmania and they play REAL football’ https://www.themercury.com.au/entertainment/cate-blanchett-on-jimmy-kimmel-go-to-tasmania-and-they-play-real-football/news-story/56e906a2c10cedb85128f76859cc5d21
• - Eric Edson - Mid-point, going into act-3. The heroes darkest hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6tXEwqkSnc   

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Guest Eilidh Doureen author of ‘Two bodies three fools' and host Craig Norris about the Mary Robinette's MICE theory of writing short stories. We then use this theory to analyse the classic 1950 radio drama 'Three Skeleton Key'.

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• Three Skeleton Key (1950) https://youtu.be/P2zT2DRFJxE
• ‘Two bodies three fools' https://www.amazon.com.au/Two-Bodies-Three-Fools-romantic-ebook/dp/B0BBV1S1NJ
• Short Stories — With Special Guest Instructor Mary Robinette Kowal https://youtu.be/blehVIDyuXk

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