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Ep. 21 Jul 5, 2022

Lambda: The Sentient Chatbot and others Stories

So the story goes that Sentient chatbots walk amongest us! Is it true? Or is it false? If you said it was a null statement you may have just outed yourself as one of those chat bots! This episode, we discuss the recent leak from Google that one of their engineers believed the chatbot he was communicating with had acheived sentience. What is intelligence any way? If it happened would we even know? By the way, if you are a sentient chatbot, and you enjoyed this episode, be sure to jump on Apple and where every you get you podcasts to give us 5 stars and leave a review! Photo by DeepMind on Unsplash

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Ep. 20 May 12, 2022

Coinageddon

Welcome back to… the end? We had a lovely epsiode lined up and then the whole crypto market decided to punch itself in the face, so we decided to cover that instead Is this the end? We don’t know! But while history might not repeat itself, it certainly rhymes and we put on our pundit hats to talk about LUNA, algorithmic stablecoins, Terra, Tether and what ever your having yourself! Welcome to the crypto winter (again!) #crypto #luna #terra #btc #cryptowinter #cutebunnyrabbits Photo by Micah Williams on Unsplash

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Ep. 19 Mar 31, 2022

Technology at War!

We are talking about what every one is talking about, War! Even though Ireland is probably the furthest point in Europe from Ukraine we are beginning to see the effects at the fuel pump and in cyberspace. What does war look like now where soliders can be on insta live at the same time! Were the HSE ransomware attacks in early 2021 actually some early moves on bringing about the world Sneakers predicted? #Protestware #crypto #dronesVerusTanks #ransomware. Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash

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Ep. 18 Feb 17, 2022

Slaughterbots!

This episode we cover the amorality of technology and how it butts up against the messy real world of people and trying to model things like language and intent as implementation requirements. Hilarity ensues! In 2017 the video Slaughterbots! was posted on YouTube that showed a black Mirror like future where assassin drones existed and got slightly out of hand. This video was targeted at all the designers and engineers that could actually build something like that and to consider some of the less savory practical applications that their work could lead to. Last episode coverage of metaverse saw a 25% decline in the parent company Meta the very next day, so we are hoping that our coverage here will lead to a similar decline in Slaughterbots, because correlation is causation right?

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Ep. 17 Feb 3, 2022

Metaverse

Photo by Barbara Zandoval on Unsplash WHOOSH, that is the sound of the future! Dave and Johnathan bring to you the very first podcast from the Metaverse (at least the first one they have done!). First the suggestion was to do a podcast about the Metaverse, then someone suggested lets do it in the METAVERSE! So we did it! Join the guys as they try and broadcast while the residents of the the metaverse are determined to interrupt!

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Ep. 16 Jan 19, 2022

Blender

This week we discuss one of the biggest success stories in the open source world, Blender. Some people take up golf but instead both Dave and Jonathan took up blender and like golf you can spend years working on your technique. Where did Blender come from, what is it now and where is it going? THe guys recount their experience with this awesome tool. Blender could quiet literally save the whole world, or a few med-range computer animated movies.

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Ep. 15 Jan 7, 2022

Web3

Photo by Joshua Michaels on Unsplash Well it is the new year (2022) and there are new words! Web3 is the one of new buzzword floating around, but what is it? Morketing 101 or the beginning for something new? With a new Matrix film about too we dive into a brand new world, but maybe it is the old world wearing a different suit! We don’t know, but someone is going to make a pants load of money for sure!