This week, Justin talks about his favorite piece of recent internet history and culture, Twitch Plays Pokemon! Then, Justin gets some good and bad news as Allison leads him through a game of Random Generator MASH, dictating his destiny from the results of a serious of random generators from randomlists.com.

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For her Zesty Hat, Allison has three new Twitter bots, ranging from a zen aquarium to an interactive game. Then in the Trashy Toy, Justin hosts the first ever Scripts National Spelling Bee with the help of a neural network! The words are challelling and Allison shows her unability to spell like a computer!

Find @JoeSondow and his awesome bots on Twitter: @EmojiAquarium @EmojiMeadow and @EmojiTetra

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We have another guest! Our friend Anand tells us about a bot developed by OpenAI made to be the best at Dota 2. Also Allison, the biggest sports expert of them all, quizzes Justin and Anand on some obscure sports history and trivia, written using a Botnik keyboard!

Check out botnik.org and their wonderful predictive text writing tool!

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It’s a round-up on ProcJam 2018! Justin talks about some of his favorite entries from the fantastic procedurally generated game jam that wrapped up last week. Then, Allison uses a couple of them to feed her RPG hunger to lead Justin on a surprisingly interesting and eerie story game.

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Allison and Justin have a guest! Local robotic engineer Garrett Moore joins them to discuss a piece of recent viral fake-AI comedy. Then, they play a game of Real or Botnik with quotes, song titles, and Guy Fieri dishes.

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Check out Botnik.org and their wonderful predictive text writing tool!

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Learn how to clean Legos with short hair as a teen! This week, Allison and Justin talk about some minor drama in the Twitter bot world and learn about a team of MIT researchers that develop creepy, macabre AI. Then, they upturn some different, more subtle horrors on wikiHow as Allison tries to guess what’s being instructed in the step-by-step.

Norman the Psychopathic AI:

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Only 90s kids remember Christian wizard rock bands like God’s Dormitory. Allison and Justin harken back to their days as masters of Harry Potter minutia and play a game of Harry Potter Jeopardy written with a Botnik keyboard. Also, Justin tells Allison about one of his favorite subreddits, /r/SubredditSimulator.

Subreddit Simulator:

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Why is it called “city chicken” anyway? Allison introduces Justin to some fun tools that allow you to play drawing games with and against neural networks! Then, Justin hosts a game of Google Feud, an internet favorite created by Justin Hook.

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What’s for dinner? You don’t even want to know. Allison and Justin feature the work of one of their favorite sources of computer-generated comedy, Janelle Shane’s blog AI Weirdness. They talk about some bizarre ice cream flavors her neural network generated and then play an only slightly disturbing game of Chopped against Chef Watson to see who comes out on top.

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Allison shares some amusing Twitter bots she found, including a John Mulaney Bot and a think piece bot. Then, Justin uses image recognition applications to describe Playbill art and Allison tries to guess which musicals the robots were describing. Wolfram Alpha is a dear sweet, simple boy.

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