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FoodNationRadio's podcast
HITCHBOT VANDALIZED AND DESTROYED

FoodNationRadio's podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2024 7:49


Food and Travel Nation with Elizabeth Dougherty HITCHBOT VANDALIZED AND DESTROYED The TRUTH about Food and Travel Original Broadcast Date:  03/04/2024 A group of Canadian researchers created a "robot" that had the ability to write about its travels.  HITCHBOT had no way of getting from one place to another without the help of curious and friendly humans.  The experiment worked, and passersby's would pick up HITCHBOT (like a hitchhiker) and move it from place to place.  It all worked well until HITCHBOT arrived in the City of Brotherly Love, where it was vandalized, decapitated, and left for dead. Each week our listeners get the very latest food and travel information We produce homemade videos of healthy, easy to make recipes We feature no-holds barred interviews in a LIVE, fast-paced, nationwide call-in show. Elizabeth Dougherty is a writer, trained chef, world traveler and now an award-winning talk show host. Food Nation Radio was on the forefront of presenting expert guests with vital information about GMOs, at a time when no one was talking about or even knew about the subject. We give our listeners, advertisers and stations a LIVE SHOW. (NO “BEST OF'S” EVER!) We present hard-hitting topics and interviews without the same old political spin. We are very social media conscious and stay in touch with our audience. (200,000 plus) We work closely with advertisers and stations to ensure their success. We are ready to deliver a fresh, tight, first-class show to your station from our digital studio utilizing Comrex Access and our own automation system. Executive Producer – Michael Serio Requests: Sammone@proton.me FOOD AND TRAVEL NATION FAST FACTS Website: Food And Travel Nation.com Social Media Sites: Facebook | Twitter website:  FoodAndTravelNation.com email:  Elizabeth@FoodAndTravelNation.com

Jumpers Jump
EP.171 - CANADA'S BIGGEST TRUE CRIME STORY, BRITNEY SPEARS CLONE THEORY, & REAL PARANORMAL VIDEOS

Jumpers Jump

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 68:25


Jump in with Carlos Juico and Gavin Ruta on episode 171 of Jumpers Jump. This episode we discuss: The truth of happiness, Brotherhood movie plot twist, Canada's biggest serial killer true crime, Neurolink theory, Faces carved in the floor haunted story, FBI agent true crime story, Britney Spears is a clone theory, Dark Smurf theory, Hitchbot story, Haunted house group ritual footage, Paranormal tik tok video, Amelia Earhart theory, Bob marley movie, Madam web criticism, Moles in the real world, Concert and comedy show theories, indie movies taking over and much more! Follow the podcast: @JumpersPodcast Follow Carlos: @CarlosJuico Follow Gavin: @GavinRutaa Check out the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/JumpersJumpYT Thanks to our Sponsors: Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/jumpers. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fifty Years of Shit Robots
77. ADVENT 17: MARVIN THE (NOT) PARANOID ANDROID

Fifty Years of Shit Robots

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2023 9:54


Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today sees the opening of the seventeenth door of our robot advent calendar. And what's inside? It's Marvin, the paranoid android, from the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy. But is Marvin paranoid? WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more. Twitter: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRTikTok: @FiftyYOSRNOTESMARVIN QUOTEShttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/marvin THE MARVIN: A UNIT FOR MEASURING DEPRESSIONhttps://the-orbit.net/literateperversions/a-modest-proposal-the-marvin-a-unit-of-depression/ THE HITCHBOThttps://www.wired.co.uk/article/hitchbot-usa-vandalised-philadelphia Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Electric Monster
E110 M3w/E5 The Tragic Tale of HitchBot [Epyon5's Mysteries, Monsters and Mayhem Vol. 20]

Electric Monster

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2023 64:42


In this episode of M3w/E5, Epyon5 is telling the tragic story of HitchBOT. A loveable scamp who was cut down in his prime. A tale of intrigue, mystery, love and murder. LONG LIVE HITCHBOT! Instagram Socials: @electricmonsterpod @aerosoulpro @epyon5 email us at electricmonsterpodcast@gmail.com music by Epyon5 | ⁠www.epyon5.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/electricmonster/message

Junk Miles with Chip and Jeff
Talking “Slap Shot” with Dave Hill

Junk Miles with Chip and Jeff

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2023 90:05


Chip and Jeff discuss the 1977 hockey classic “Slap Shot” with comedian and author Dave Hill. They also discuss Dave's new book “The Awesome Game - One Man's Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey” and his lifelong love of the sport. Other topics discussed include HitchBot, Found Footage Festival, hockey cuisine, basketball shorts, loud Philly bars, Polish hooligans, Dave's Canadian heritage, youth hockey, Rob Zombie Flyers movie, Paul Newman's beautiful blue eyes, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and much more fun.

Barstool Rundown
Justice For Hitchbot - Barstool Rundown - May 2nd, 2023

Barstool Rundown

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2023 43:47


Playoffs Met Gala Robot Dog Pornhub Full Body OrgasmYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/barstoolrundown

Jim and Them
Mindy Kaling's Velma Is For No One - #755 Part 2

Jim and Them

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2023 95:54


FELD-MAN Of The Year 2022: We have the recent winner of FELD-MAN of the Year 2022 drop in with an inspiring acceptance speech, THE NMAN HIMSELF!VELMA: Let's check in on the latest HBO MAX hit from Mindy Kaling, VELMA! Some people call it the next Community.Hitchbot: America takes a stand against the coming robot replacement by not taking part of the HITCHBOT social experiment.CALIFORNIA!, DESERVES WHAT IT GETS!, DOOM!, WHITE NOISE!, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM!, NEW BODY RHUMBA!, RETARDED!, CHANG THE ROCK CHONGSON!, THE ROCK!, COOK!, GAMETIME EPISODE 3!, PATREON!, FELD-MAN OF THE YEAR 2022!, ACCEPTANCE SPEECH!, AWARD!, PRAISE HIM!, JIM AND THEN!, #1 PODCAST!, #1 SPORTS PODCAST!, ZICKY DICE!, TWITCH!, LIVE YOUR DREAM!, IMPACT!, SENSATION!, FOLLOW HIS DREAM!, GOD'S DREAM!, BTS!, BETTER LIFE!, HELP PEOPLE!, CRINGEY INTRO VIDEOS!, BACKWARDS HAT!, HOUSTON COUGARS!, MRGOO1!, LOGAN PAUL!, WINNIE THE POOH!, AVENUE Q!, TREKKIE MONSTER!, RAW!, NOVEMBER!, AUDIENCE!, THUNDERDOME!, CHEERING!, THE MIGHTY NOAH!, COMMUNITY!, DAN HARMON!, FOX ANIMATED!, IRONIC!, ADULT ANIMATION!, HBO MAX!, VELMA!, SCOOBY DOO!, EDGY!, SPREAD BULLSHIT!, DAREDEVIL!, STREAMING SHOWS!, TITANS!, SLOW ROLL!, LESBIAN!, BJ NOVAK!, VIN DIESEL!, IS SHE GAY!?, WHO'S THE FATHER OF HER CHILDREN!, THE JETSONS!, VELMA KAI!, SHAGGY!, PHILLY!, HITCHBOT!, CANADA!, SOCIAL EXPERIMENT!, HITCHHIKING!, SPYING!, ROBOT WAR!, NOT CUTE!, POLAR POP!, CIRCLE K!, BILL AND TED!, CRASS!, TIKTOK TREND!, TOYS!,You can find the videos from this episode at our Discord RIGHT HERE!

Let Me Tell You About...
Noyz Boyz 31: Distillate Boyz

Let Me Tell You About...

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2022 92:41


[This episode was livestreamed on 11/13/2022 and has been edited to be more enjoyable in an audio only state]Talking Points: pet friends for VERY friendly pets, Shrekfest '22, distillate bubby, "you have to get dry whenever you get wet", DUI Joe, the demon door granny, joe finds a needle, cool caves off the tracks, tad the pumpkincuck, a live domestic dispute, making a portal to equestria, sandy bottoms, the idiot tax, midwest asian food, Joe Buckley was in charge of YOUR votes, hitchbot, cornfest 2022, gimpy pitbulls and the average american mallhttps://imgur.com/a/XPmCTRchttps://imgur.com/a/n5M0RkAhttps://imgur.com/a/TNWXQ3qhttps://imgur.com/a/vAWf8GBhttps://imgur.com/a/kJxFv2UCheck out the website for links to our shows on iTunes, GooglePodcasts and Spotify► https://lmtya.simplecast.com/► https://spoti.fi/2Q55yfLPeep us on Twitter► @LetMeTellYouPDOfficial Discord► https://discord.gg/SqyXJ9REmail or call me bby and leave a voicemail► letmetellyouabouttt@gmail.com►  ‪(413) 206-6545‬/////// SHILL CORNER ///////► https://www.patreon.com/LMTYALMTYA shirts!► https://represent.com/lmtya/////// SHILL CORNER ///////

Batting Around Podcast
Let's All Meet at Hitchbot's Grave with Liz Roscher and Justin Klugh

Batting Around Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2022 62:25


Stephen takes over on this one and brings along Philadelphia dirtbags Liz Roscher and Justin Klugh to talk about HOLY SHIT THE PHILLIES ARE IN THE WORLD SERIES. It's like The McLaughlin Group for people who flick lit cigarettes at kids in Mets hats and puke on police horses. We talk shit on the Astros, Mattress Mack, and everyone who isn't loving this postseason. Also Justin found a mask of potentially demonic origin and we talk about how the Phillies just keep getting gayer and gayer. Like what we're doing here? Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to support the show

TechStuff
TechStuff Classic: The Sad Tale of HitchBot

TechStuff

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2022 52:33


What was HitchBot all about and what happened to it? From hitchhiking across Canada to a violent end in Philadelphia, we tell the robot's story. Scott Benjamin guest hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Deep Lore Boys Podcast
#24 - Project Habakkuk, HitchBOT, Expanding Earth

The Deep Lore Boys Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2022 38:42


The finale is here. The first season of the podcast is complete, and the Deep Lore Boys are ending it the same way it all began. After revisiting the stupendous iceberg boat that could have dominated the seas during WWII, we recount the tragic tale of a Canadian hitchhiking robot who was beaten and decapitated in Philidelphia. And to top it all off, we answer the age-old question... is the earth getting bigger? And if it is, is it flat, round, or a velociraptor? Further Reading: Project Habakkuk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk HitchBOT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT Expanding Earth Theroy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_Earth Intro: City Lights — Babasmas [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/W9IQfypOkkYFree Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/city-lights Music: Jazz In Paris - Media Right Productions https://youtu.be/mNLJMTRvyj8

Tell Me What to Google
The Life and Death of hitchBOT

Tell Me What to Google

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 52:13


Was it a social experiment gone wrong? Or did it produce results exactly as intended? In 2014, robotics and communications scholars developed hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot. It made its way across Canada, Germany and The Netherlands, but couldn't make it 2 weeks in the USA without being destroyed. In this episode, we  tell the story about the life and death of the hitchhiking robot, then play the quick quiz with Comedian Glen Tickle.   Review this podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-internet-says-it-s-true/id1530853589 Bonus episodes and content available at http://Patreon.com/MichaelKent For special discounts and links to our sponsors, visit http://theinternetsaysitstrue.com/deals Use promo code "INTERNET" for 15% off skincare products at www.aldernewyork.com

Fact Off
The Curse of Tutankhamun, Hitchbot, and Mr. Potato Head

Fact Off

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2022 38:41


Pat shares how a string of mysterious deaths was associated with the excavation of Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb. Mike tells the tragic tale of Hitchbot, the hitchhiking robot sensation that traveled the globe. Alex reveals the origin story of the beloved toy, Mr. Potato Head. VOTE HERE Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod Email: thefactoffpodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Retraction Podcast
hitchBot, An American Tragedy

Retraction Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2022 102:57


This week we talk slow running, the tragedy of hitchBot (25:35), how the Postal Service is freeing up some cash (37:00), and why Trader Joe's joined the ranks of the Union busters (1:02:00). Reversing course through discourse, it's another episode of Retraction! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Das Criminal
69 - The Murder(?) of Hitchbot

Das Criminal

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2022 46:03


In 2015, Hitchbot — a hitchhiking robot made from pool noodles and a bucket by the eager students of Canada's Ryerson University-slash-Toronto Metropolitan University — was dismembered by unidentified assailants on the streets of Philadelphia. Its decapitated cake-container of a head has never been recovered. In this episode, we're going to try to answer the question: Can you murder a robot? Plus, social experiments, baby seal violence, and everyone's favorite sci-fi topic: sex robots. Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal Sources: https://bit.ly/3ygv9Fz

Jimmy Eat Pod
146 – Robot Factory

Jimmy Eat Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2022 146:04


David and Justin get cybernetic with this Static Prevails track. They also talk about the allure of Ally Sheedy, hitchBOT, and play a rousing game of I Am A Robot. Check out Robot Factory here! Get the YouTube playlist for the episode here Follow us on Instagram at @jimmyeatpod Follow us on Twitter at @jimmyeatpod GetRead More

Neon Brainiacs
255 - Deadly Friend (1986)

Neon Brainiacs

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2022 116:12


Bring your basketball, maniacs, because this week we're covering a Wes Craven deep cut in 1986's Deadly Friend! Joining us to dissect this cult flick are Ande and Eanna from the Queeens Of NC-17 podcast! As we talk all things robots, we also discuss topics such as moving to a new house sight unseen, the unfortunate demise of Hitchbot, and the poor fate of the vested dirtbike tough's unmentionables. Stay tuned at the end of the episode for another edition of Maniac Feedback!

The Unqualified Gurus Podcast
Hitchhiking to the Starts Ft. Gaming Guru Eric | EP41

The Unqualified Gurus Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2022 156:44


This episode is truly out of this world, and, on top of that, we are joined, once again, by Eric, The Gaming Guru. As it is usual, we ramble, but we also pay tribute to Hitchbot, who, trying hard to change the image of robots, had an unfortunate ending. Rest in peace Hitchbot. Stranger Things season 4 ended, so of course we had to talk about it. Oh my goodness, we just found out the moon is truly made out of cheese... something like that. Enjoy!   ~~~ Discord Server ~~~ https://discord.gg/Sn6rSYQrkT   ~~~ Follow Us on Social Media! ~~~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Unqualified-Gurus-Podcast-102423902208978/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theunqualifiedgurus/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theunqualifiedgurus?lang=en   ~~~ Follow the Podcast! ~~~ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-unqualified-gurus-podcast/id1589559338 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0RFWl1Bv7Fyy305n93JEAt Amazon/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/45d2ee98-9fe3-4c5f-84dd-c6926e534c6c Google: https://podcastsmanager.google.com/show?show=show:kqNRroQuSGZQkREA3ZLjaA Podbean: https://unqualifiedgurus.podbean.com iHeartRadio: https://iheart.com/podcast/87304740/ TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Comedy-Podcasts/The-Unqualified-Gurus-Podcast-p1526158/ PlayerFM: https://player.fm/series/the-unqualified-gurus-podcast Listen Notes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-unqualified-gurus-podcast-QinjewgZq0d/   ~~~ Shameless Plugs! ~~~ Oscar's Silent Artist: https://www.instagram.com/silentartist.co/ Daniel's Velcode: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgwHVfkJ6rlcw8ko4ci0iRQ  

Le Double Expresso RTL2
L'INTÉGRALE - Les Frangines dans Le Double Expresso RTL2 (06/05/22)

Le Double Expresso RTL2

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2022 159:37


Les Frangines étaient les invités du Double Expresso RTL2 ce vendredi 6 mai 20022. Elles ont répondu aux questions de Grégory Ascher et de Justine Salmon et ont interprété en direct des studios de RTL2 leur nouveau single "Notes" extrait de l'album du même nom. L'info Expresso - La fin des mots de passe - Mieux manger au cinéma Le winner du jour : - Le copilote n'a pas passé son dernier test - 84 ans dans la même société La chanson du jour : Jean-Jacques Goldman "Il changeait la vie" Le savoir inutile : Hitchbot est un robot conçu par deux universités canadiennes pour traverser le Canada d'Est en Ouest en faisant du stop pour observer la réaction des humains face aux robots. Le jeu surprise (le petit quiz) : Gabrielle près d'Avignon repart avec une montre connectée Ice Watch. La Banque RTL2 : Carole à Llupia près de Perpignan repart avec une montre connectée Ice Watch. Julien de Cambrai repart avec une montre connectée Ice Watch.

Command Line Heroes
Humans as Robot Caretakers

Command Line Heroes

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2021 21:10


HitchBOT was an experiment in stewardship: A small, rudimentary robot unable to move on its own, depending on the kindness of passersby to help it along its journey. Until it met an untimely end. Trust is a two-way street, and because robots are not powered by their own moral code, they rely on humans to supply both empathy and support. Dr. Frauke Zeller shares HitchBOT's origin story. Eli Schwartz recounts his heartbreak upon learning what happened in Philadelphia. Dr. Julie Carpenter analyzes why it all went down. And Georgia Guthrie epitomizes the outpouring of sympathy that followed. Together, they tell a layered story about humans, and how we respond to robots. With HitchBOT, we find a little hope in the shadow of its demise.If you want to read up on some of our research on robot-human interaction, you can check our all our bonus material over at redhat.com/commandlineheroes. Follow along with the episode transcript.

Innovation Heroes
The Hitchiking Robot's Guide to the Universe

Innovation Heroes

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2021 27:50 Transcription Available


Hitchhiking robots were just the beginning. Ed meets with Dr. Frauke Zeller and Lauren Dwyer, two leading social robotics scientists at X University in Toronto. Together, they go over the inspiring and viral story of hitchBot and all the amazing work Dr. Zeller and her team have been up to ever since. They discuss the latest and near-term use cases of robots in society and uncover a series of fascinating insights. From building the perfect robo-companion, to fundamentally altering our industries and what it means to be human, you will never look at your Roomba the same way again.  Featuring: Dr. Frauke Zeller, Associate Professor and Director of The Creative School Catalyst & CCK at X University and Lauren Dwyer, Doctoral Candidate in Communication and Culture, Technology in Practice at X University.     This episode of Innovation Heroes is brought to you by HP Inc Notebooks on the Intel Evo platform. Visit SHI.com/HP to learn more.   

Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church
July 4, 2021 “Take Nothing for Your Journey” by Pastor Beth Ann Stone

Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2021 16:05


Gospel: Mark 6:1-13 Answer: Like a blender full of goldfish, a hitchhiking robot, and the Declaration of Independence. Question: How were Jesus' disciples sent out to carry out his work?   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3040891.stm https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/us/hitchbot-robot-beheaded-philadelphia-feat/index.html https://twitter.com/hitchBOT https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

Dorks in the Dorm
From Teeth to Canadian AI

Dorks in the Dorm

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2021 64:30


Join Gabe and Spencer as they roll through some random topics. From Teeth to hitchBOT, they talk about it all!

teeth hitchbot canadian ai
Down the Wormhole
Artificial Intelligence Part 4 (Computerized Clergy)

Down the Wormhole

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 66:46


Episode 81 What do robotic Torah scribes, Bluetooth rosaries, and a decapitated hitchhiking robot have in common? They're all teaching us what it means to be spiritual beings in the 21st century. Whether we like it or not, smart, adaptive technology is working its way into our religious and spiritual lives. Will we use it thoughtfully to enhance our lives or will it just become another technological nuisance? We're still in the early days of AI, and our actions today will have an outsized impact on how it develops. Let's be intentional, thoughtful, and prayerful about how we shepherd its growth, and become the sorts of people that Hitchbot would be proud to call friends.    Support this podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/DowntheWormholepodcast   More information at https://www.downthewormhole.com/   produced by Zack Jackson music by Zack Jackson and Barton Willis    Show Notes To read: 1) The church of AI https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-intelligence-religion/ 2) Robot religious functions https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/9/20851753/ai-religion-robot-priest-mindar-buddhism-christianity 3) Funerals for robotic companions https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/funerals-for-fallen-robots/279861/ 4) AIBO funerals and our humanity https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/robot-funerals-reflect-our-humanity 5) Can robots pray (and a super creepy monk)...we didn't talk about this, but it is still a fascinating part of the conversation https://aeon.co/essays/can-a-robot-pray-does-an-automaton-have-a-soul-ai-and-theology-meet 6) Values-based AI https://slate.com/technology/2019/11/priest-rabbi-robot-walk-into-bar-religion-technology.html 7) The Southern Baptist Convention principles on AI (again, didn't talk about this in particular but it is creative and proactive rather than reactive) https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/southern-baptist-convention-artificial-intelligence-evangelical-statement-principles.html  8) Hitchbot (wiki) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT  9) Social Credit system used in China (wiki article) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System  10) 5min video on what the Social credit system looks like https://www.reddit.com/r/TheGoodPlace/comments/a719ko/s1e1_chinas_social_credit_system_resemblance_to/ 11) Point system in the Good place https://howard-chai.medium.com/a-look-at-the-moral-point-system-of-the-good-place-7858215fd9dc 12) Opportunity's last words and goodbye tributes https://laist.com/2019/02/16/jpl_mars_rover_opportunity_battery_is_low_and_its_getting_dark.php   Transcript This transcript was automatically generated by www.otter.ai, and as such contains errors (especially when multiple people are talking). As the AI learns our voices, the transcripts will improve. We hope it is helpful even with the errors.    Zack Jackson 00:04 You are listening to the down the wormhole podcast exploring the strange and fascinating relationship between science and religion. This week our hosts are   Rachael Jackson 00:14 Rachel Jackson Rabbi at Agoudas Israel congregation in Hendersonville, North Carolina. And my favorite fictional robotic companion is Data from Star Trek Next Generation.   Zack Jackson 00:30 Zack Jackson UCC pastor in Reading, Pennsylvania, and my favorite fictional robotic companion is Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.   Ian Binns 00:42 Ian Binns Associate Professor of elementary science education at UNC Charlotte. And my favorite is R2D2   Kendra Holt-Moore 00:51 Kendra Holt-Moore PhD candidate at Boston University. And my favorite fictional robot companion is also Data. Because I just started watching Star Trek, and I love him.   Rachael Jackson 01:07 Resistance is futile Welcome on board.   Zack Jackson 01:12 I don't think she's gotten that far yet.   Rachael Jackson 01:13 No, not that don't be fine.   Zack Jackson 01:15 Well that'll be funny in a couple weeks.   Rachael Jackson 01:20 Okay, so thank you for that question. I'm glad that we were able to start there. And as we are doing our AI series, and I wanted to talk about this in a slightly different way than we have been talking about it. So previously, we've talked about transhumanism and cyborgs. And really, what is the concept? Last time we talked about this, we really focused on education. And so today, I really wanted to focus our conversation on religion, right, what is AI in relation to religion, and that in and of itself is a huge topic. But I want to start with an example from my tradition. And this example, is the use of ritual of a particular ritual object and how, how it appears. So I'll go into a little bit of detail there. In Judaism, we read the five the five books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers in Deuteronomy, from a scroll, rather than from a Codex form. And the scroll form doesn't have vowels. It doesn't have punctuation marks doesn't have page numbers. So it can be very complicated to read. And not only that, it's extremely complicated to write. It takes a scribe who's working on parchment, which is animal skin, with using a quill dipped in special ink, writing on this paper, and the letters have to be extremely precise, and everything the columns are justified. And if anyone has ever tried to hand write in justified columns, it's so crazy hard. So sometimes the letters look really long, or sometimes the letters are really squished and it's just it's a very laborious, intensive intensive in terms of time but intensive also in terms of emotional and and frankly redundancy. And for for a good scribe or for a professional scribe, a year to a year and a half is what it takes full time to write a Torah. And then each of the peaches, pieces of parchment are stitched together rolled up and Mazel Tov we have we have a scroll. I don't want to necessarily give an estimate, because I don't want to undersell those that are that are paying for this. They're a brand new one is anywhere between 40 and $80,000. Just Just to give a Yeah. Wow.   Zack Jackson 04:05 Yeah, I guess you're paying the wages for a year.   Rachael Jackson 04:08 You're paying the wages, you're also paying, like parchment is animal skin, like that's not cheap. And these use, you know, many, many animals. Again, it depends on the size of the parchment and the kind of animal if you're using, like, goat skin, how many pieces of parchment you can get per goat, like it's, it's a lot.   Kendra Holt-Moore 04:30 How big is the finished product.   Rachael Jackson 04:32 So the parchment itself can vary. It's anywhere between, say 18 and 36 inches tall. Right, so top to bottom, and of course, there's a there's borders around it so that you're not just touching the scroll every time so 18 to 36 inches. Our synagogue is lucky enough to have three scrolls of various sizes, and then you put them on wooden die. You stitch them into wooden dowels and roll them up that way. And so when you're actually scrolling the scroll, you're using the wooden dowels to move, you know, literally go through the parchment that way and that way, of course, we, we make it pretty, because everything needs jewelry. And so we put a beautiful gown on top of it, and we put some finishing touches on it, and then the pointer because you're never supposed to actually touch it. And so the thing that you're carrying around our largest one is about 50 pounds, and is over four feet tall. You know, Tao is over four feet and over 50 pounds.   Kendra Holt-Moore 05:34 It's massive.   Rachael Jackson 05:35 Yeah, they're massive write these and no, of course, there are small ones, right, you can get one that's about 12 inches, but they're extremely hard to write, which actually makes the cost go up because like you're doing tiny print then and,   Kendra Holt-Moore 05:48 and then you also have to buy a magnifying glass to rewrite.   Rachael Jackson 05:51 They're really hard to read because like I said, No vowels, no punctuation. Really hard to read.   Ian Binns 05:58 So, gosh, that sounds like an awful lot of work. Can I interrupt? Of course, is it required? Or maybe required is not the right word. But does every synagogue? Have one? That is the goal? Yes. Okay, so the goal is very, but it's not like, there's not anything written in where it says for you. It's pretty much.   Rachael Jackson 06:19 It's pretty much it's pretty much there. Yeah, it's not that you have to. But how do you read from the Torah, if you don't have one? Right? I mean, you're reading from a Codex of Hamas, a Torah, write a paper Torah. But like, if you're going to do it, like the best you can do is do it well. And so sometimes there's like loans like, oh, there's a little small synagogue over here that doesn't have one, we'll loan it to you for, you know, 30 years or something,   Ian Binns 06:44 do you have like, Are any of those in your office where you're in our worship space,   Rachael Jackson 06:50 oh, they're all in the sanctuary. And they're all under a locked cabinet. And they are all there is a fire a smoke detector inside the ark where we keep them. And the fire department knows that, that save those, like, if you're here for a fire, go right there. And we'll deal with the rest of the building. Like they're really they're that important, like they are the most important thing in the synagogue. So parchment and scribing is expensive and intensive. So the question is, will then why do it? Right? Like, why have a person do this, we've had printing presses for hundreds of years at this point. And okay, so you don't want to print the toy because you can't really it's hard to do printed to our on parchment. Okay, but now when the 21st century, and the 21st century, we can have a mechanical hand, actually write the Torah, and it can use a parchment, it can use the special ink and it just once you program it in there with all the specifications, this AI robot can write the Torah. So why wouldn't we have that and once you've put in the the capital of programming it, you just go right, you don't have to you don't have to change it up. So many times, you don't have to repay the programmer. Every time you just say, Nope, we just need more parchment more ink. Alright, so if we're still doing a halakhically, what is the role of the person? What does the person bring to this, that a robot can't or a and I'm using AI in this a not just a robot, because as I was saying, like, they can be different size parchments, the column width can be different. So you have to you have to teach the robot or the robot has to know what what justification in this, you know, full justified center justified looks like and so it has to know looking at the parchment, so it has to learn not just be programmed. So that's how I'm using AI as opposed to just a robot program. And there's a female scribe, which is a whole different category of, you know, egalitarianism and feminism that we won't get into this particular episode, but there's a female scribe, and Julia seltzer, who with I think it was five other women scribed an entire Torah together like each one of them took most of a book, Deuteronomy is really long. And then they stitched it together. And what she noticed is that their handwriting was different, that someone might have had like a little bit more of a flourish when they made the crown on a letter or a little bit like maybe one looked a little blockier and the other one looked a little bit softer, that looks different and you know, the person behind it and so now you're like I don't I don't study the scribe but there aren't that many in the world and there there haven't been so if you know the age and the location of the tour that you have You know, the person who scribed it, there is a story, there are memories, there is an intention behind it, there is an awareness of what you're doing. And that awareness doesn't exist in AI and robots. There's a prayer in Judaism, which says, Thank you like in the mornings, thank you for my soul. And thank you for the awareness of my soul. And it's that extra step that I think is missing, when we're looking at what can I do, as far as religion is concerned? So I just wanted to open up with the tour and saying it would be far cheaper, and far more accurate if we chose to do this sort of robotic arm AI printing than using a person. But it's not just about the money, right? in religion, it's not just what is the bottom line? Right? That's, that's one of the things that makes religious organizations different than, you know, other businesses or for profit centers. And I'm being kind that religions are not for profit centers, and sort of being generous to religion as a concept, in those ways, that it's not about doing it the cheapest and fastest. So what is it about? So when we look at again, using the example of writing the Torah? What What is it? So that's where I wanted to start. And so that's when one place for my tradition of where AI could be used, but we're choosing not to use it and wondering if there are places that you could see, either as an object or as a ritual in and of itself, from your traditions, or you are understandings that could or could not be substituted with AI?   Zack Jackson 12:00 Yeah, so there's a product that you can purchase from the Vatican itself. That is basically a Fitbit. For your your rosary.   12:14 Yes, I   Zack Jackson 12:14 saw that, were you It's great, because it's got its own little charging station, and you pick it up, and you make the sign of the cross on it. And that activates it. And then it's able to tell by the weighted beads, and for those of you who maybe aren't as familiar with rosary has a certain amount of beads. And the point is to hold a bead while you say a prayer, and then move to the next bead. While you say a prayer. It's a physical act while you're doing a spiritual act, in order to connect the full body to engage all of your senses, and to help you keep track of what you're doing while you're doing it. Because like, if you're saying a prayer a number of times in a row, how are you going to keep track? Like, do you lose track, you know, like, well, I guess I got to start over again, or start writing it down or something. So the rosary has long been a helpful tool for people. But in this one, it now syncs up to your phone, and can remind you, if you haven't been doing your prayers, or reward you, if you have been doing your prayers. Have you know, there might be social functions where you can encourage each other, I know that there was by the Bible gateway app, introduced a social aspect to it. And then suddenly, I started getting notifications like crazy, where all of my friends were like, connect with so and so on Bible gateway and share your daily devotional, your practice your reading. And so then that now there's this kind of social pressure, that now everyone knows what I'm reading. And now I have to make sure I'm reading extra spiritual stuff. Make sure everyone else knows how spiritual I am. And so there are some issues with that. I think we're now it Jesus says, practice your religion in secret, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. If possible, go into a closet where no one knows you're there. He says that if you are fasting, not to put on sackcloth and ashes and let everyone know that you're super spiritual, but to put on your Sunday best and act like everything is normal. So nobody knows. And so a lot of these we talked last time about the gamification of education and other things. And so when you have sort of the gamification of, of religious practice, then I don't know, you start to want to show off a little bit or feel that social pressure that a lot of the church because of, you know, but I don't know, I've never used one of these. So maybe they're great. I do love love. All gadgets. That's fascinating. That's,   Rachael Jackson 15:03 that's a great word gadget. Right? It's using tech to encourage a particular practice. And one of the pitfalls, I think, is when we make that practice public, the Fitbit idea, right, you can have your own Fitbit, and not tell anybody, by the way, and you can set your own, you can set your own, like, tell it get up every 10 minutes or get up at you know, 10 minutes every hour, or whatever it is, and you don't have to tell people, but then we get that bias built in of whoever is creating the software, whoever is creating the technology, what is their value system. Sort of like the zoo, I didn't, I never joined the Bible gateway group, nor did a join this other way that I'm going to say, covenant eyes, right? Like basically, where you can have a person, double check your browser history, to make sure that you're staying on the up and up the accountability of what you're looking at on the internet. And as we all know, the internet was created for porn. So if the internet is created for porn, then your covenant eyes need to make sure you're not doing that. I'm being a little flippant, but maybe not that much. But that then turns into, it could turn into a race of I am holier than thou Look at, look at how much I'm doing and posturing and buckling under peer pressure, and then you're losing that that authenticity, and then suddenly, it's just besting each other, which kind of goes against most religious tenants from most religions that I'm aware of, right, like, look how better I am than you are at this. But building in that value system, and I think that's, that's the really dark gray area that could get pretty twisted, when we look at AI because at this point, at least, there is not sentience and choice in AI, which means it's all about the person who's programming it and the values that they're using. Yeah, I   Kendra Holt-Moore 17:45 think it's interesting, the examples that we're talking about are, seems to be examples of what AI takes away from us, or from religious traditions, whether that's like authenticity, or, you know, like not not having a person's story behind a tourist scroll. But instead, it being you know, a robot that has like standard handwriting and all these things, or, you know, the rosary gadget that, you know, for whatever reason, there's something that we feel is missing from these rituals and relationships. And I like that all makes a lot of sense to me. But I was really struck by one of the articles that Rachel shared with us before our meeting today, and it was an article in The Atlantic called funerals for fallen robots. Yes. And that that piece was just like highlighting the emotional attachment that people have for robots and how we, you know, the, the emphasis here is not so much on like, the nature of AI itself. I mean, it is a little bit, but it's more about, I think it's more about, like how humans create themselves, like the creation of the self through relationship with objects, which is something we've always done like before robots, but it's so interesting to me, because it's like, is that something is that like, what the flip side of AI is, we gain a lot by having potentially these robots, or, you know, even if it's just like a gadget, you know, like, I definitely have emotional attachments to like random objects, just like little tokens on my desk, because of the person who gave it to me. Or, you know, I have like a pouch of these. I call them my study tokens. They're just like little random buttons and pins and rocks and little figurines that people have given to me and I set them around my computer sometimes when I like really need to Get in the zone. And you know, they're not robots, but it's like this like emotional attachment with these inanimate like metal and rock objects on my desk. And I would be so sad if I lost any one of these things. And so I think it's like a very similar kind of relationship that if we look at robots and AI, like we can still form those kinds of attachments, and they might even be deeper, if AI is mimicking the kinds of like, human effect and human thought. And I just think that's so interesting, because it I, there was a long time where I thought, like, my gut reaction is that oh, well, that's still kind of empty, though. Like, it doesn't mean anything. And then like, the older I get, and the more I've like, thought about this, especially as technology just changes, I think that's like, I think it's really a powerful relationship, even though it's very weird to think about. But like, if I had a robot, and it was like, you know, r two D two, or data or you know, any, any of our like, famous robot companions from any fictional universe, yeah, I would want to, like protect that robot friend, and make sure that it was charged every day and make sure that it was like, happy and whatever, since that robots can be happy. And I think that that whatever, whatever we can say about the realness or not realness of that relationship, I think what's true about it is that it changes who we are. And it reflects something about who we are and who we are becoming. Because everything that we have a relationship with in the world plays on or, you know, helps to create the virtues that we have the weaknesses that we have the personalities that we have. And I just think that's really cool. And really interesting, because it doesn't have to just be with humans. And that's always been the case.   Zack Jackson 22:02 I that. I think we need to take a second and pour one out for hich bot while we're at it. Do you remember hitch bought? No. So it was a an adorable two young little robot from but too young. It was like 1013   Kendra Holt-Moore 22:22 Is it like a Tamagotchi?   Zack Jackson 22:24 No in 2013. So eight years ago, these developers in Canada made this robot and they made it to kind of look junkyard chic is how they called it, where it was cylindrical body. And it's got these like pool noodle arms and legs and this adorable little face. And the point of it was an social experiment to see if robots could trust humans. So it can't walk. But it can talk. And it was equipped with 3g connection and GPS, so that it could update its own social media accounts. And it could talk to the people who interacted with it and ask them to hitch a ride to the next place. And encourage them to like talk back to it had some rudimentary AI so it could communicate with people like a chatbot. And people would take pictures with it, it would be such an honor to like stumble upon hitch bot, and you get to update your social media and be like, I dropped it off here. And now the next person picks it up. It went across Canada three different times. I think. It went across Germany and the Netherlands.   Rachael Jackson 23:35 And then it just went the second one went across Germany.   Zack Jackson 23:38 Okay, but in 2015 tried to go across the US but got decapitated in Philly. Because Because Billy and if you were to ask me, somebody who's lived in Philly, and is from south south Jersey, where it would have been killed, I would have told you it would have been Philadelphia.   Rachael Jackson 24:04 Also, just just to add to that, it only its goal was to start in Boston. I remember Following this, it was it started in Boston and was going to get to San Francisco, got decapitated in Philly. And the head was never found. Like it didn't even it's not like it started in San Francisco. No, it started in Boston, and only got to Philly.   Zack Jackson 24:29 It had made it out of the East Coast or totally would have gotten there. It would have gotten there. If you can make it out of the East Coast, then you're okay.   Rachael Jackson 24:37 Ichabod I love what you're saying. Right? Like this idea of what is our attachment both from an emotional standpoint or she's made from an individual standpoint, but then also a cultural right like this poor hitch bot was totally fine and the Netherlands and Germany and Canada and the US we were like I don't trust you. Yeah. decapitate. Wow, season four of shields calculating things. So but what? What does that say about us and our relationship? And I think that's also what you were saying Kendra, right? This, this funeral for a bow AI Bo. I might be mispronouncing it. But that's how I had heard it. Right, these these robotic dogs. And it's true that even in the military people that have military companions, robotic companions, there's a sadness there. I mean, there was there was a famous movie, it wasn't a robot. But oh, Castaway. Right, Tom Hanks and Wilson, the volleyball, right there were weird, I think the movie was quiet for what 40 minutes, there was no dialogue or something like that, something crazy like that. And we were all just like, we'll setting like, we'll set it like we were just like something. And we had this immense attachment to a movie volleyball. No, it's just, it was so powerful, in fact, could create how much of the more so something has been there, watching your back, if something has been there carrying you on. And so many of us use objects as tools, right, that I don't have a deep attachment to my laptop or to my phone, like I use them, but I don't have an emotional attachment. My son, who's who's almost seven has had the same Kindle for, I guess we got him three years ago. And he has an emotional attachment to his Kindle, like he cares for it, he makes sure that it's in the right place, he makes sure that it's clean, he's sad, when it doesn't work, he makes sure that it's it's charged so that he can carry it with them. Like, it's very different than I need to use this as a tool, right. And so for me, we're able to use a AI or technology, we're using those a little interchangeably, as an ability to start forming relationships and bonds that teach us about who we are. And in religion, it's my, it's my understanding that one of the things that religion does, is teach us and help us with relationships, relationships, and in all, in all dimensions. And and I say that in the horizontal, it teaches us how to be in relationship with the world around us and those within the world around us, including ourselves, it is a vertical relationship, such that we have a relationship with the past and the future. And it's also the z axis relationship, which to me is the Divinity or spiritual aspect, right. So if we're on an X, Y, Z axis, the z axis would be the godly aspect. Or however each religion chooses to understand that which is not known. But it's, it's all relationships as almost as a stark difference from facts. And so if AI can teach us those things, or teach us how to do those things, or encourage those things, or grow those things, I think it can be a beautiful relationship, which is a couple of the other articles that that I'll post in the show notes, or I'll have Zack post in the show notes. So I think that there's beauty in there, what we need to make sure that when we're using them, and they're using us, that we recognize the values and that we trust what's in front of us. And I think that's an important piece that we're not that we haven't fully fully digested. How do we gain this trust? Right, so so Zack brought in the hitch bot, where it couldn't trust Americans and Americans couldn't trust it. And it is no longer, right. How do we develop the trust, which is the foundation of relationships?   Kendra Holt-Moore 29:17 Yeah. And I think that it's interesting to think about the trust that we can develop with these, you know, Ai, whatever technology, we're talking about these emotional attachments, and how that's a really different that's a really different relationship to these objects than talking about whether or not AI and you know, future robots will deserve rights. Which is like really interesting, because I think there's a natural blending of those ideas where over time, if we're treating something like we're In a relationship with it in the same way we would be with the human. That conversation to me kind of feels a note inevitable. I don't know, like what the answer will end up being. But, you know, like, that's already a conversation of like, Can robots? Or should robots who are more like Android in nature? Should they be granted citizenship, which is just like, so crazy to think about, but I think is, you know, is going to be a conversation that's like, way more prominent, like way down the line in the future when we do have robots that are a lot more like us. But for now, I think it's a lot easier actually, to ask the question of like, how can we trust the technology that's in front of us? Because that feels a little bit more manageable? I think, still a really hard question, because you have to think about the ethics of, and the values that go into programming. And that's like a huge debate to have about the, you know, the cultural code of the robot in front of you, and how that conflicts with whoever's using it or interacting with it. So still really difficult. But it's, I think, still maybe a little bit more manageable than talking about, like robot citizenship.   Zack Jackson 31:45 Have you all heard about what's going on in China with the social credit scores?   Rachael Jackson 31:50 Oh, yes. Oh, it's so scary,   Ian Binns 31:53 I want you to unpack that for us. Because that was interesting,   Zack Jackson 31:55 a way of, of using AI, especially, to keep humans in line. While they're already well known for their facial recognition, and the fact that there's cameras everywhere, and that those cameras are always tracking who you are and where you are, and what you're doing.   Rachael Jackson 32:15 Said, right and said with pride that I think it was that once you enter the public sphere, meaning not your own home, within three seconds, it can identify their entire population, like 1.4 billion people within three seconds.   Ian Binns 32:33 That was crazy,   Zack Jackson 32:35 which sure helped to keep the COVID under control, but also their populace. And so they've been doing these trial runs, in some places have adopted them more thoroughly, where they're essentially keeping record of each individual person and giving that person a score based on their trustworthiness. So things that might negatively impact your social credit rating might be things like playing loud music, or eating food on Rapid Transit when you're not supposed to, or jaywalking or speeding, or this is a good one, making reservations at a restaurant and then not showing up. Oh, yeah, I'm not correctly sorting your recycling. And if your score gets too low, you might be denied things. Like, I think I read that there was like 80,000 people so far, who had not been able to get on trains, because their social score was too low, and they couldn't be trusted on it. And if you want to get out of that, it takes like two to five years to get out of that. Or you can work really hard to raise your score. By doing things like donating to charity, or giving blood or volunteering or praising the government on social media.   Ian Binns 34:06 I feel like 10s of millions of Americans would have been screwed during the last administration.   Zack Jackson 34:10 Right? Yeah. So like, if you want good things like, you know, a line of credit to buy a house or favorable terms on loans, or getting   Rachael Jackson 34:22 a reservation at a restaurant   Zack Jackson 34:24 or getting a reservation at a restaurant, like you'd better make sure that your social social score is high. And this is, I mean, this is also a society that as is a shame, shame and honor based society. And so kind of taking advantage of that. In order to control the populace, using opaque artificial intelligence like No, nobody, this is not open source data. This is stuff that's tracking your every single movement, so you might be out walking Down the street somewhere, and you reach in your pocket to get your phone and a receipt falls out your pocket, and you get docked for littering, because it knows what you just did. And it was watching you. And supporters of this. say that this is going to be a way of creating a utopian society where like plenty of people will just do the right thing, because it's the right thing to do. Do these   Kendra Holt-Moore 35:24 dystopian literature come on over?   Rachael Jackson 35:28 China, they don't have it. Yeah, it's not an   Zack Jackson 35:32 like, this will finally do what religion failed to do. In keeping the people in line and making a morally just society, because it offers punishments that are immediate, and felt instead of like, afterlife based.   Rachael Jackson 35:49 Yeah. And daily and daily life. impactful, right? Not just, yeah, eventually, one day, this will come back to bite you. And that took us, but like, Oh, I can't get on the bus today. Like, oh, that has impacted my life. And this is like, I'm wondering, did they ride? Or did they take notes from the good place? With this feels, this feels very much like the scores that people are getting based on their activities. And one of the things that I am troubled by, in this just one of very many things I'm troubled by with this whole scenario is we don't actually know the end result of a single action. So let's just take the littering on on the face of it. That seems like a pretty like, we'd all kind of get behind that. Right? Like, you don't want to litter like I'm not a fan of littering, and we talk about it and we don't want to do it. And sometimes Adrian IO and you know, his friends will go pick up the litter that we find in the in the park. Right, littering. I'm totally behind that. In this particular society, as far as I have read, and I, I could be corrected, please. Having clean streets is really important. Right that there's there is a value in the in the culture of having clean public spaces, in order to have clean public spaces. Somebody has to do that job. So if somebody accidentally litres, and then they get docked for it, then people stop littering. How many jobs did that cost? There was no intent behind the littering. But the accidental littering or the wind took it away. How many jobs did that cost? And what are the life what is the life like for those people whose job was to literally be a human a street sweeper. And, and those ramifications, that we're not able to see the human cost? Again, minus the whole dystopian issue, but that to be docked for something that seems dockable. But we don't know where this where this is going. That's where I'm uncomfortable with this, like, how far are we going? Oh,   Kendra Holt-Moore 38:19 but on the other hand, maybe we should just let the robots take all of our jobs so that we can just focus on our hobbies and have universal basic income. Am I right?   Rachael Jackson 38:29 Totally. Right. I just want to start doing more cross stitching. So yes, I am 100% on board with just take my job. Right? But   Kendra Holt-Moore 38:38 but we got to have the infrastructure like you're right. That's not where we are right now. But I hope one day, we can all have our hobbies, and money and just like live our lives because work   Zack Jackson 38:50 shouldn't be all I mean, according to will robots take my job calm. I'm only point 8% likely that clergy will be replaced by AI and robots,   Rachael Jackson 39:01 right. And we have seen that so very clearly in this last year. Because the people that have been in hospitals or have died or have had a funeral, or have had any sort of life cycle moment in which they want their clergy there, in addition to whatever worship we have on the weeks, there's no comparison and holding someone's hand. That, yeah, it'd be great if a robot did my job, but I don't think a robot could do my job. Right? Because there's something about the touch. There's something about the human connection. There's something about the look in a person's eyes that says, I see you and I empathize with whatever you're going through. That we haven't gotten there yet with AI and while the technical aspects of most of our jobs could be done I think even the jobs where it's a 95%, your job could be done by AI, or robot. It's not going to be a healthy thing. Because Where are we getting those relationships? Sorry, and I'm talking about   Ian Binns 40:15 that's okay. I'm just makes me think about like, if we think about so instead of just, you know, a thought experiment, I guess on what are the things in our so not necessarily to take our entire job? But what are the things within our particular professions? That if robots or AI took over that aspect profession, what would free us up to do more of beautiful things? We could do more? Still still with your profession? Yes, hobbies? Definitely. But like, so for me. And I know, we brought this up in the last episode. For me, especially it's like grading, for example. You know, if there were robots or you know, something like that, that could I mean, obviously, it's easier now than it used to be because of technology. But if that was a way where it can be fully programmed to do all of that for me, then what? There are other, I'm certain that there, it will give me time to do other things.   Rachael Jackson 41:18 Really? Okay, I'm gonna push you on that one a little bit. The reason I say that, barring Scantron tests, which are stupid. Good. Sorry, for those that I'm offending that do. I feel like you get to know your student based on the answers, they give in the questions, that you're losing something when you don't grade their papers. You're losing, how they're thinking you're losing. And what what creativity are they coming up with? And so, so I would say, if you're not doing that, you're not seeing the individual? What are if, if that part is taken away by robots, which I'm not quite sure how you would do that equitably? I would have to be a pretty smart robot to try to grade individual questions that aren't Scantron based, or that multiple choice, how else would you then get to know the students like that, to me isn't where you spend the time, right? in getting to know like, having coffee shop our having, you know, let's sit down and chat for 20 minutes, just because like the 20 minutes, I would have spent grading your essays. Now let's just talk about them. But I don't I don't know how you could equitably do that, honestly. And also,   Ian Binns 42:42 what I'm curious about is though, that, to me, is still less thinking in the same way that things are done now. Like I'm almost pushing us to think, what other avenues could it open. If some skill, some things like that, that can become very time consuming. I'm not saying already, like, there are definitely parts that I would still need to do as human. But I think there are some things that may make it where I could end up spending more time on other tasks and other ways of getting to know students and connecting with him. potentially even more fully.   Zack Jackson 43:22 Yeah.   Ian Binns 43:23 So all by all the grading, it's okay. So I'm just curious, like, Are there ways within your professions that there are some mundane things that you're just like, you know, what, if I could get rid of that imagine I would have more time on this,   Rachael Jackson 43:38 you know, what I gotta say, I have predictive text set up on my Gmail. And I have had it set up on my like, I've been using the same gmail account for work for six years. I'm pretty like I change it up, I don't, I don't write the same exact same thing every time. But I have a particular way of talking in email. I have a particular rabbinic voice or a style that's in email, just like when you if any of you were to ever talk to me on the phone, and and I pick up and I say, Hello, this is Robert Jackson, you hear my voice go up by about half an octave. It is amazing. Um, so I have that same sort of tick quality characteristic in my email. And so now when I'm writing an email, it will the predictive text will have almost the entire sentence written if I write one or two words, and I go, yeah, that's what I want. tab, tab, tab. And next thing you know, my entire email is written in two minutes rather than six. And so as a person who writes enter between 20 and 50 emails, writes 20 to 50 emails a day. That's that's been helpful, right? It's it's freed me up to have the conversation with someone in person.   Zack Jackson 45:19 I think a database that would help keep track of who is sick? Who is? Well, who is recovered? And who's related to who would be really helpful?   Rachael Jackson 45:35 Oh, I have that for you, I can send you the link. I well.   Zack Jackson 45:38 So one that that can also like predict things. I'm thinking AI wise, where, like, I know that this person has this condition, this condition and has been in the hospital this amount of time this amount of time. And then so you might want to check in on this person at this time. You know, have you talked with so and so lately? They haven't been in church? Oh, yeah. Okay, that's a good point, there's probably something going on. Because like, my mind personally doesn't work like that. I cannot hold on to details about individual people. Especially when I have that many people. Were I think, like, Oh, I haven't seen that person in six weeks, because I've been with the other people. And I haven't thought about it, or Oh, yeah, that's right, they did get COVID last month, and I never checked back in on them. I wonder how they're doing now like that kind of a thing, connected with the local hospitals, which could update me on people's medical conditions, as well as like death of relatives who maybe aren't members of my church, like it's scanning through the obituaries of the local papers to be like, Oh, well, I have this member whose uncle just died. But they're not. The uncle is not a member of my church. And so now I know that maybe I should reach out to this person, like that kind of assistance and pastoral care would be really helpful, because nine times out of 10, I miss it. And then I realized after the fact that I could have been a comforting presence in that moment.   Rachael Jackson 47:08 Although I will just say, I do have an awesome pastoral care website that I use. And it's, it's super helpful. It's not AI. But it's really amazing to help me to help me do those exact same to do those things. Again, it doesn't connect to the hospitals. It doesn't it doesn't scan obituaries, but it helps. It's my own personal. It's my own personal pastoral care assistant. Well, we   Zack Jackson 47:33 have a lot of clergy who listen, what's the website,   Rachael Jackson 47:36 it's called notebaert. And ot e bi, rd note, bird. And it is awesome. And I'm happy to share this and happy to be a poster child's No, they're not paying me for any reason. I just love it.   Zack Jackson 47:49 But they could.   Rachael Jackson 47:53 Really, and and they are. They're totally non denominational. Like, they they listened to the Jews, and they put stuff in there for the Jews. But there's a whole bunch of stuff in there for Christians to like, I haven't, you know, communion wise, I didn't, I didn't look at all the Christian stuff, because I don't need to. And they're extremely responsive and wonderful. And I could just like sing their praises all day long. Because I think we're getting there, right? Like, we keep having these, these brainstorming so we can get there. And I think if we're not afraid of it, and I keep going back to what Kendra was saying, right, that that initially, we started talking about the drawbacks, and Ken was like, Hey, what about all the positives? Wait, it could be so great. It would like it would just be wonderful. If our values were there, right, the value of pastoral care would have to be there.   Kendra Holt-Moore 48:50 Yeah. And I think to like another way of thinking about, like how AI would like, you know, supplement people's jobs. It's not even that, like all of the things that we do in academia or as clergy. I don't, I don't really know how AI is gonna, like supplement what any of us do besides like what we're talking about now with, like databases, like technology stuff, sure. But I just think, like, there are a different category of jobs that AI can do. So that it like frees up people like maybe, maybe there will be more people who want to be clergy members, or like, you know, researchers and teachers. And since AI is doing, you know, the jobs that those people might have been doing now, we have all these people who want to do these jobs, but we don't have to work the whole year. Like maybe we're on a half year schedule. And then you know, we switch out and then the robot or not the robot that that People who would have been doing, I don't know, pick a job, what's a job that maybe AI is going to take over one day? I guess we use the idea of like the streets with images, or sandwiches? Yeah, sandwiches. You know, like, it just creates an abundance of like, time, I guess is what it's giving us, or like opportunity to do something that you might not have thought you were going to do. I don't know, it just there's, there's more ways to think about it than just that, like, yeah, robots gonna, like grade my papers or like, sit by someone on their deathbed. Because I don't I don't know if like that. There's something about that, that makes me like, like cringe a little bit, even though that's like also what we're talking about as a potential for being like really cool. And   Zack Jackson 50:51 COVID, they've had to do that. And I there are hospitals that have set up these like, iPad robots that kind of look humanoid, but they have an iPad for a head, where you can connect to people that you know, and that you love. There's even some more advanced technology out there that will have a hand on it. And then another hand will be held by your loved one who's maybe in the waiting room. And then like the two cents each other cool and will squeeze cool other sad   Rachael Jackson 51:20 at the same time.   Ian Binns 51:23 But necessary during times like a pandemic,   Zack Jackson 51:26 right? Yeah. Right. But given a normal circumstance, no one would choose that. Right.   Rachael Jackson 51:31 Right. And, you know, what I, what I hear you suggesting Kendra, too, is perhaps that technology AI as it gets there, again, using them interchangeably, allows us to really understand what we want our lives to be, especially as Americans who have been trained and our culture of just high productivity, like unbelievably high productivity that our value is based in what we produce. And then our value as a citizen, or as a person is how much effort we put into our company. Right? Whatever that as a worker, that's where it last. And so if we have the ability to, to have our job being done by something else, rather than replacing our job, like finding something else, as in was suggesting to do with that time for a job to say, great, it's done. Now I have time to be me. I to actually say it's not. Yes, maybe the average is a 40 Hour Workweek. But I don't really know anybody that does that. I don't, I don't I don't know of any salaried, that's untrue. I know of one salaried employee who works for the government, frankly, and they're the only ones that I know that's a salaried employee that actually sticks to 40 hours. The only reason I'm using the term salaried is because the employer then has to pay per hour and usually they don't want to pay overtime. And so they're they're battling this like well, you then you just have to be extremely highly productive in your hour. So that's why I'm separating out the hourly versus a salary because the the employer in that case is not willing to pay the the overtime wages often read that this 40 Hour Workweek and this idea of downtime being not a good thing. Right. So   Ian Binns 53:35 you think about like, the genius time or whatever, that or whatever it was that Google had, right, isn't it, you know, they that they didn't Google Earth, like the idea for Google Earth and the development of Google Earth? What came from someone having that? Like, didn't they have it as their job like 20% of the people's time was meant for them to just focus on thinking, yeah,   Zack Jackson 54:01 whatever. Certainly the work on certain engineers job. Yeah, they give freedom to they have like little play rooms, basically. Yeah, with little things to mess around with. And they encourage people to do that. And, yeah, but that's just for the engineers that are making things.   Ian Binns 54:16 Yeah, yeah. So when I was thinking, so this is I like that you mentioned that Rachel was still part of the job. So I guess for clarification, if there was a way that there that AI can help make some of the tasks of my job easier, right for me to then go in directions with my job in life that I couldn't have even imagined as a teacher. I would take that. Or just I know there could be some negatives there. Potentially, that that could be coming. But I would choose to initially focus on what are the things I could gain. Like that would give me the time to not have to worry about oh well. So When I'm recording this podcast, there are other things on my mind that I'm like, oh, man, I gotta get back to that someday, right? I would have to worry about that stuff. Right, I would have that time. And the things. So what I think about like within academia, so when we started this, the podcast idea, and we started running with it, and now we're doing it. And it's been almost two years, and I wouldn't trade for anything. And I'm not I'm not ready to leave it. I love doing this stuff. Right? One of the thoughts that had to go through my mind was is how do I write this down to make sure that my supervisors all the way up the chain in academia value it? And then you think about, so when you get new leadership, and they see that I'm writing on these areas that may not be as high research productivity? What does that mean? I don't care, because it's doing what I love to do. Right. And I still get to do the other things too. But that just means that now I'm adding more to my plate, which is fine. But I'm always thinking about when it comes to like, teachers. So there are ways you know, in this field of education, that could make it so that we could do some of those other things that people love to do that somehow to resolve the time or because of just exhaustion. Right? Yeah. So yeah, I think those are the things I would try out and just backing on my give that a shot, if it doesn't work, doesn't work, I try something different. So I don't think I would lose connection with the students. If I had some of those other tests that were a little bit easier for me to do at least less time consuming. Right, so that because I would use that time to plan for more different types of experiences in the classroom. When I'm thinking about class stuff, here are some different things that could potentially do in my classroom. Now, let me now got time to really plan it out. Let me run with it. That's how I would want to approach it. And it's funny while saying that the AI on my wrist was telling me, you look like you need to breathe right now. I guess my heart rate was going up.   Zack Jackson 57:06 I should think we we should all breathe, right? Yes, I know.   Ian Binns 57:09 But it says even a minute of deep breathing can be helpful. It's almost like a meditation reminder to meditate.   Rachael Jackson 57:17 Right? A reminder to to be, and I think we're at the point and perhaps perhaps it's just my limited imagination. And perhaps it's my limited vertical ability. I can't really see AI as like really intelligence. Right? Just really, I think I'm stuck in technology, and what that's doing. But I think and I hope that we have the ability to create things where where we are allowed to be human beings, not human doings. And that can be the focus. So however, we can get there, using the value systems that we have in places individuals or to whichever society and culture we ascribe of which many of us have overlapping ones, right, Amir for me, you know, feminist, and Jewish, and American and all that stuff, right, like overlapping, but what are what are my values they're in? And how can I use this technology in the AI to allow me to be a human being not just a human doing, and in that way, sort of living up to this idea that I myself, so there was a Zionist named a had her arm, which actually he changed his name, and it translates to one people. That's what that translates to, I had her um, he was writing in the late, late 19th, early 20th century, and he was defining the difference between sacred and profane. And that which is profane, is a means to an end. And when you get to the end, the object itself loses its meaning. And the sacred is that which the object itself can be used in lots of different ways to achieve many different ends and is, is by itself, by its nature, holy. And for me, that's what I want for the human being, not just the human doing, not that I am here, to do something, to do a job to do this, that and the other but to be and there and that being using the AI to create an imbue holiness in the self in whatever job we're in, whether that's in religion, whether that's an academia or any myriad of other fields that we've sort of, we've sort of touched on and when we're able to then bridge AI and religion in those ways we can see ourselves as holy that's, that's, that's my sort of my hero range. Bow in the sky hope   Kendra Holt-Moore 1:00:02 that what you're saying, Rachel, about bridging those those things is reminding me of. And this sort of ties back to a conversation earlier about religion and AI and like the funerals of robots and stuff like that. There was a late 19th century anthropologist, Eb Tyler, if you study religion, you probably know him. There's lots of like, problematic issues, we could talk about them. But the what he was writing about at that time was about animism, and had this idea that animism is like the original religion, and that it was also like a central characteristic of what he called a quote unquote, primitive religions. And so that's where we can like talk about, like colonialism and all that stuff. But the the idea of what he's talking about is that there is like this development of religion where you start out as being animistic, which, if you don't know, animism is like, basically put life or seeing that there's life or like a soul in inanimate objects or in things besides humans. So thinking that the river has a spirit, and the trees and the rocks have spirits. And so this is what Tyler's talking about. But it's interesting to me, because I, I was thinking, you know, even though someone like Tyler, or, you know, other anthropologists and people who would say like, oh, only primitive religions have animism or this idea of like, life and soul and inanimate objects, or like having these childish attachments to things. What we know or like, what, you know, if you study religion is that has nothing to do with like, this like line of progress, where like, the more advanced modernized religions don't have attachments, or don't have these ideas of life and spirit in nature or other inanimate objects. And I think like the prime, like piece of evidence for that right now in this conversation is that, you know, we can really be looking at the most, like technologically advanced places, and we're talking about how we, like throw a funeral or some other kind of celebration for our robot friend, and that it's just like this human impulse to relate to the world around us. And there's nothing that's like primitive about that, whether whether it's like animism in the traditional sense, or what we're talking about now, where we're relating to things in this new way, as technology changes. You know, our best friends are going to be robots one day, and it just is like, so interesting to see how humans are continually coming up with ways to relate to the world around us. So that's what I was thinking.   Zack Jackson 1:03:19 Yeah, it's the final words of, of the opportunity rover that struck a chord around the world that yes, you know, the opportunity rover, went for 15 years on Mars, way longer than it was supposed to the little rover that could, and then one final dust storm covered the, as far as we know, covered it up. And, you know, it's just sending telemetry data back and you know, just the battery's dying and whatnot. And somebody on Twitter, wrote, The last message they received was basically, My battery is low, and it's getting dark. And that phrase, then, like, went around the world. my battery's low, and it's getting dark. I've seen that tattooed on people. I've seen so many t shirts and mugs and like that little rover with its little solar panels, just alone on this distant cold planet. my battery's low and it's getting dark. Then there was like this worldwide morning for this little little rover guy. That will one day I'm sure be in a museum and those words I hope will be inscribed on it. So that we know that like this is a human connection. This isn't just a religion thing. This is a human connection.   Rachael Jackson 1:04:39 All the fields right the rest in peace   Zack Jackson 1:04:44 rest in peace which bot whose final we will   Rachael Jackson 1:04:49 find we will find your   Kendra Holt-Moore 1:04:52 your word   Zack Jackson 1:04:53 and avenge them. No, no, no hitch bought wouldn't want it that way. hitch Potts, fine. No tweets By the way, were August 1 2015. Oh dear, my body was damaged. But I live on with all of my friends.   Rachael Jackson 1:05:09 Sometimes that was funnier to me.   Zack Jackson 1:05:12 Sometimes bad things happen to good robots and then little bit later posted a picture of itself with its with its creators and said my trip must come to an end for now but my love for humans will never fade. Thank you friends.   Kendra Holt-Moore 1:05:31 me getting love should fade. A little little buddy.   Zack Jackson 1:05:35 Oh, no hitch BOD is the best of us.   Ian Binns 1:05:41 Data Philly.   Zack Jackson 1:05:43 Well just wait a few years when hitch bought the white comes up and saves us all from the evil forces having battled the Balrog of Philadelphia   Rachael Jackson 1:05:57 to be controlled   Zack Jackson 1:05:58 to niche all right next time

Estás Interfiriendo con mi Zen. You are messing with my Zen.
E18 - Relación con la tecnología, robots, inteligencia artificial y otros demonios.

Estás Interfiriendo con mi Zen. You are messing with my Zen.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2021 47:02


Energia Nuclear, Fukushima, Chernobyl, Inteligencia Artificial, Robots, Astroboy, Hitchbot, Isaac Asimov, Tesla, Hora de Verano, Genesis 2.0, Clonación, Mamuts.

When Wife Gives You Lemons
Meat tenderizing butt plug, podcast shout-outs, parenting #kids #marriage #relationships

When Wife Gives You Lemons

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2021 39:33


This week we shout out our favorite podcasts #danishandoneil #ryansickler #joshwolf and more We talk about John's Facebook war, butt plug meat tenderizer, and more.

ForgettingWalls
Episode 34 - Marriage: What Is It And How Does It Change Us?

ForgettingWalls

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2020 119:54


In Episode 34, Keith W, Justin, Keith H, Ryan, and Kris sit down to talk about the concept of marriage. What exactly is the definition of marriage? What is it like to be married? Does marriage change who we are? What depth (or lack thereof) does marriage have in our society? Since Keith W and Ryan are the only two married men on this podcast, they do most of the heavy lifting, while the rest of the guys ask questions. Also, the guys talk about the implications of cloning Jesus, as well as the tragic demise of Hitchbot, our adorable robot companion. Finally, they discuss court-ordered forced marriages and trial by combat. Like what you hear? go over to the podcast page and leave us a comment. And as always, be sure to subscribe, rate, and tell your friends about the podcast! Show Notes: Opening: RIP HitchBot Reco's: House of Cards Post Christian - Christian Piatt I Don't Want to Live Forever - Listener Keith's Story Time: Forced Marriage Game of Trials Music: Intro: Dubstep - Ben Sound First Break: Art Ambidextrous - Propaganda Second Break: Reinventing Your Exit - Underoath --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/forgettingwalls/support

Extremely Internet
hitchBOT, the Hitchhiking Robot and... C*mbox

Extremely Internet

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2020 95:05


Today Kyle gives us a palate cleanser that cleanses no one's palate, and Mitch tells a lovely story about a little Canadian robot that hitched its way across multiple countries before meeting its untimely demise in Philadelphia. Also there's a weird echo we couldn't fix love you sorry! Follow us on social media!insta:@kyleandersoncomedy@mitchholleman@extremelyinternettwitter:@dangeranderson@grasstoad@mitchholleman@extremelynetpod

The Lesser Known People Podcast

HitchBOT is a five-gallon bucket with pool noodle arms and a heart of gold. Be regaled by the story of a mostly useless robot that travels across four countries until he/she (the jury is still out on the gender) meets an unfortunate end. The gang is a little drunk in this episode and things take a few unexpected turns.

Topic Lords
Non-Euclidean Christianity

Topic Lords

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2020 70:16


Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Ryan is @RyanIkeComposer on Twitter and @RyanIkeAudio on Instagram and is probably not working on Skyrim 2? * Tyriq is FourbitFriday everywhere and really wants to finish Catacomb Kids. * https://www.ckgame.net/ Topics: * What's a fandom you're not a part of, but kind of wish you were? * Pointless Automatons * https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/future-scooters-central-park.html * https://www.strandbeest.com/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT * http://www.tweenbots.com * Please help reconstruct this lost pun: "vegan jazz standards" with nutritional yeast * Mallow asks: "how do you grapple with / think about your legacy? (things that sprang to mind included the relevant timeframe, obligations to the future, how/what people inherit from their ancestors, and how (self-)censorship is a way to cut off a legacy)" * Consistency of idiolect * Disfluencies providing value to the listener: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000300.html * How can we appeal to Gen Z so when they take over we aren't executed along with the Boomers? Microtopics: * Clapping just because it's fun. * A trainwreck of three people talking over each other. * Being in a corridor and punching a weird alien. * Topic thirst. * Pokemon Snap making you even more of a pariah, if that's even possible. * Throwing apples at a Snorlax until it wakes up, like the shitty kid at the zoo. * A reverse body snatcher situation, where you're the only alien walking around in a skin suit. * Enjoying a game more if it doesn't involve collecting things. * Going to a free R&B concert every Sunday. * Going to a white small town Lutheran church which was boring and lame. * The organ coming in for particularly high-energy moments. * Somebody telling you that you are inches away from going to hell in the same basement that they just had an alcoholics anonymous meeting four seconds ago. * Having to worry about all your atheist friends going to hell. * Non-Euclidean Christianity. * Refusing to put anything in your ears to make the music be less music and going deaf for three days. * Big moving contraptions that resemble some sort of life form made out of shafts of PVC that wander along the beaches. * Having no purpose other than to exist. * Having made so many things extinct that you feel obligated to fill the ecosystem with weird new robots. * Sentient scooters running wild in New York City. * An adorable robot that can only roll forward and relies on passers-by to navigate. * Automations existing wholly outside of the human sphere. * A battlebot that got loose in the forest, a ramp rolling around the forest floor flipping over pinecones. * Wanting to believe that battlebots are real so badly that you forget that they have RC drivers. * A robot with a nuke or at least a flail. * A village of Rube Goldberg machines triggering each other forever. * Listing jazz standards except replacing one of the words in each title with "nooch." * One of those jokes that you construct for 17 people to get, but those 17 people really appreciate it. * Slipping in the shower and the last thought in your head before you die is the game of the jazz standard that makes the best nooch pun. * Not being sure whether an answer to your question is possible but proceeding under the assumption that it is. * Not allowing yourself to die until you know the answer. * Carrying around the answer to your life's question in your wallet so whenever you're ready to die you can read it and the paramedics will find you crumpled on the floor holding a note that just says "The Girl From Ipanoocha." * Just wanting to be a person who has a finished game. * Being driven to finish your current project so you can start the next one. * Realizing that just because you made a promise to finish one project, you're allowed to do other things too. * The projects that anyone can come in and finish vs. the projects that will die with you. * Not having the attention span to finish a big project unless you owe it to somebody. * Having some realizations right here on the podcast. * Convincing yourself that the thing you want to do can fit as part of your larger project. * Making music and never playing it for anybody because you're just making music because you enjoy it. * All the great artists of the past having had a record label or a church they were beholden to. * Michelangelo just deciding "this ceiling looks wack, I'm gonna fix it." * Thinking of your unpublished works as increasing your posthumous clout. * Putting your unpublished works in the attic because that's where people find posthumous art. * Selling one album to somebody in New Jersey in your twelve year music career. * Starting a patreon for people who want to support your main work and putting only unrelated works behind the patreon paywall. * Uploading yourself to the cloud and making jam games forever for an audience of nobody. * Adopting new phrases into your lexicon and letting other ones vanish. * Adopting the vocal mannerisms and vocabulary of people you hang out with. * Needing a phrase that means "diggity dang" but replacing each one after six months as you get sick of it. * Talking to someone who doesn't use "umm" or "like" and instead just pauses for the same amount of time, and never being sure if they're done talking or if they are about to headbutt you. * So-called "disfluencies" like "umm" and "uh" providing value to the listener in that they signify that the upcoming idea is more complex. * Why everyone talked so fast in the early 20th century. * Op-eds from Victorian times complaining about how young women are constantly saying "prithee" and "perchance" now. * Needing the revolution to start soon because the boomers are about to die of old age and then the guillotine falls squarely on Gen X. * Boomers writing op-eds about how Gen Z hates Gen X and millennials too, in hopes of inventing a generational divide that they're not on the wrong side of. * Giving the next generation instructions on how and why to destroy you. * The age segregation in the American school system resulting in most people knowing only people their own age for much of their lives. * Cultural generations shortening as cultural change speeds up, until twins born minutes apart are on opposite sides of a war. * Starting an Instagram to try to connect with the kids. * College costing either zero or infinity dollars depending on the letter your last name starts with.

Your Last Dumb Breath w/ Bart Dangus
S1E3 - Ep. 3 Hitchbot

Your Last Dumb Breath w/ Bart Dangus

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2020 45:34


Episode #3 Hitchbot!Find the images on IG: https://www.instagram.com/yldbpodcast/ Video content + bonus episodes available at: https://www.patreon.com/bartdangusThank you so much for the support! This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

The Ladies of Strange
Bonus: What The Ruk?!

The Ladies of Strange

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 59:25


Hello, Lovelies! This week we have the honor of Rukland joining us! Because of the special occasion, each of the ladies present a short topic! (Yup! You get three stories this week!) Tiffany tells the tale of her favorite robot, hitchBOT and his adventures. Rebecca talks about the history and festivals surrounding the Rocky Mountain Oyster (with a little bit of true crime mixed in). Ashley teaches us all about what goes into the embalming process. We hope you enjoy this "random facts with the Ladies" episode and make sure to check out Ruk's show, 5 and 30 with Ruk! Ya'll can find links to the Cast Junkie discord server and links to Ruk's show "5 and 30 with Ruk" in this week's blog post: https://wp.me/paqGnY-sW Merch: https://theladiesofstrange.com/merch/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theladiesofstrange Links to our social media and other fun stuff: https://www.theladiesofstrange.com/links/

High Society Radio
HSR 02/20/20 DitchBOT (Nick Deleon)

High Society Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2020 75:18


Nick Deleon joins Chris Stanley and Chris from Brooklyn for this week’s episode of High Society Radio! The guys discuss the implosion of We Work, the guy who created Trump’s website, and how grub hub is scamming restaurants. Plus, the guys react to Love Sync technology, a description of Epstein’s penis, and bring Mike Harrington in for questioning after learning that he was the last person to see HitchBOT alive. Air Date: 02/20/20 Support our sponsors! Go to MUDWTR.com and use promo code DRINKMUD for 15% off your order! Visit Ridge.com/HSR and use promo code HSR for 10% off your purchase and FREE worldwide shipping! Check out FOCL.com and use promo code HSR15 for 15% off your order! You can watch High Society Radio LIVE for FREE every Thursday at 8PM on GaSDigitalNetwork.com/live.Merchandise is available at PodcastMerch.com/HSR!For access to our entire catalog of episodes On Demand in HD, subscribe to GaSDigitalNetwork.com! Use promo code HSR for a two week free trial and over 15% off your monthly membership. There, you'll have access to ALL of the other amazing shows on GaS Digital Network!

Killer Cocktails
E54: Clover Club, hitchBOT, and Sterling Barnett Spann

Killer Cocktails

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2020 65:11


hitchBOT A friendly hitchhiker made their way across Canada, the Netherlands, and Germany before heading to the United States. But only two weeks into their journey in America they were beheaded in Philadelphia. Sterling Barnett Spann Hold onto your butts because this case is going for a wild ride. At first, Sterling seems like the... The post E54: Clover Club, hitchBOT, and Sterling Barnett Spann appeared first on Killer Cocktails.

Have a nice life.
02. Hitchbot Was Asking For It

Have a nice life.

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2020 118:28


Let's call this the one after the pilot. We're beginning to hit our stride. // What's it like to be up to one's neck in piping hot twinks? Is that OFFICE POPCORN? Do I hear a vibrator and Los Campesinos? Who killed Hitchbot? Do people really dream of living here? What do you think of an OnlyFans career consultant? // In addition to these questions, we give some inaugural Unqualified Life Advice and Dan proves he knows more about culture than you. // Follow on Instagram & Twitter, @anicelifepod, @emricchini, @danbassini // The HBR article we referenced: https://hbr.org/2018/01/why-people-really-quit-their-jobs --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haveanicelifepodcast/message

Ghost Town
GI MINI FAILS: hitchBOT

Ghost Town

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2019 14:02


In 2015, this "hitchhiking robot" met its demise in the streets of Philadelphia, PA. However, the motives behind it's discovery are suspect...Support Ghost Town on PatreonFollow Ghost Town on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ghost Town
GI MINI FAILS: hitchBOT

Ghost Town

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2019 15:02


In 2015, this "hitchhiking robot" met its demise in the streets of Philadelphia, PA. However, the motives behind it's discovery are suspect... Support Ghost Town on Patreon Follow Ghost Town on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Time Killer Podcast
EP024 - Ring Revolutionaries & HitchBOT Hell

Time Killer Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2019 10:57


Episode 024: Discusses Amazon's plan to weaponize your door bell & that time a robot came to Philly. #TimeKillerPodcast #Amazon #Philadelphia #HitchBOT #Canada #Philly #Terminator #Ring #TimeKiller #TimeKillerNoFiller #Blessed https://www.AlfredComedy.Com https://www.twitter.com/AlfredCarcieri https://www.instagram.com/alfredcarcieri https://www.facebook.com/alfredcomedy/ The Time Killer Podcast is where stand-up comedian Alfred Carcieri goes over news of the day and all the things he read to kill time lately. Quick takes on recent news stories and fast deep dives on weird stories from history.

Heckin Cool Dads Podcast
Ep 033 - I farted, it tickled, my butt cheeks...

Heckin Cool Dads Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2019 94:16


We're talking that 99 pack of PBR, horrible windshield wipers, Hitchbot, Instagram hiding likes, significant other farts, and wondering how certain jingles make it around the world when they're not even real songs!

The Documentary Podcast
Can you murder a robot?

The Documentary Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2019 50:40


A couple of years ago a cute little robot was sent out to hitchhike, to prove how well humans and robots could get on. It was an exercise in trust, and it went very wrong. Hitchbot was found decapitated, slumped next to some bins in Philadelphia. The robot’s head has never been found. Neither has the “killer”. We explore robot torture, and whether there is an ethical issue with harming a machine, other than damage to property.

TechStuff
Techstuff Classic: The Sad Tale of Hitchbot

TechStuff

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2018 58:23


What was HitchBot all about and what happened to it? From hitchiking across Canada to a violent end in Philadelphia, we tell the robot's story. Scott Benjamin guest hosts. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

The Feed with Amber Mac & Michael B
TF139 - How Law Enforcement Tracks a Suspect's Digital Footprint

The Feed with Amber Mac & Michael B

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2018 49:44


After the recent attack in Toronto, cybercrime expert Ryan Duquette walks us through what law enforcement are learning about the suspect online. We also talk to the makers of a hitchhiking robot, Hitchbot, about his path from the unpredictable streets to a safe museum. Michael Josh from GadgetMatch joins us with the latest smartphone from Huawei and how it could compete with today's DLSRs. In Socially Speaking, we discuss robots in the classroom and the positive role they can play.

Junk Miles with Chip and Jeff
Junk Miles - Episode 15 – Dan McQuade from Deadspin

Junk Miles with Chip and Jeff

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2018 118:55


Chip and Jeff took a very rare night off from running and enjoyed some pizza, tea, and phantastic indoor conversation with Philadelphia’s Number One Trusted News Source, Dan McQuade from Deadspin.com. The following topics were discussed: favorite places to run in Philly, E-A-G-L-E-S, Roger Rabbit, ice axes, Kid’s Choice Awards, Quidditch, Ben Franklin Bridge, Pet Talk featuring Detective John Munch, Raise The Cat, Memphis Showboats, Huffamoose, Tuba Gooding Jr., Philadelphia half marathons, Boyz II Men, Fergie’s Pub, “Mannequin,” Meshach Taylor, Sneakerheads, and the untimely death of hitchBOT.

Pop Culture Idiots
PCI 040: HitchBOT is Skynet

Pop Culture Idiots

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2016 63:32


Erica gets passionate about libraries, robots are destroyed, The Flash messes with everyone’s timeline, and more Mobile Suit.

Mind Gap
Episode 37 - How the Internet has Screwed Over Corporations with Nate Dicken

Mind Gap

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2016 60:23


Comedian Nate Dicken dropped by to talk to Doug and Justin about how Internet users have failed corporations. They discuss how the UK’s polar research vessel was named Boaty McBoatface through an online poll and they joyfully recall Mountain Dew's disastrous "Dub the Dew" campaign. Nate talks about the times he used to troll other players on Halo. Doug realizes that he used to be a bully. Doug and Nate discuss how much they hate car commercials. Justin retells the story of Hitchbot and its untimely demise. The heroes then consider whether the internet is bad because of people or if people are bad because of the internet. Things are wrapped up with a verbal debate throw-down with Groot vs. Hodor. You can catch Nate performing around Chicago in one of his many comedic groups: Shade Man Bites Dog - Every Thursday at CiC Theater Butthead Check out Doug’s improv group, Class Act, at www.classactimprov.com for show dates and times and like them on Facebook!

The Kid-Free Weekend
Episode 15 - Hate, Hashish, Hoverboards, and Hitchbot

The Kid-Free Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2016 70:28


Look back at 2015 with Jeff and Jennifer: Marriage equality, hate continues, Trump is scary, Bernie is swell, legal weed is on the verge, poor little Hitchbot, Back to the Future got it wrong, milkshakes ... and yet more Star Wars talk. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Mind Gap
Episode 20 - Artificial Intelligence with Drew Dull

Mind Gap

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2015 38:17


Drew Dull returns to engage Doug and Justin in a riveting discussion about artificial intelligence. Things start with a discussion about Hitchbot, the hitchhiking “robot” that was making it’s way across the world before it was ultimately murdered in Philadelphia. Doug, Justin, and Drew try to decide how to define what a robot truly is. Justin explains what a Flat Stanley is for Doug. Then, Doug, Drew, and Justin consider whether Artificial Intelligence would ever be possible. Things are wrapped up with a throw-down between the comic book Deadpool vs. Deadpool from the movie ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’. Hitchbot story:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hitchbot-destroyed-in-philadelphia-ending-u-s-tour-1.3177098

Excellency Fiddlesticks
Episode 39: Screw Your Social Experiment!

Excellency Fiddlesticks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2015


Join your host for a dramatic return as he dives into Trump, muses on the fate of HitchBOT, lauds some fine work on the links, and calls out someone caught protesting a bit too much. Follow the show @ExFiddle

Robot or Not?
22: Hitchbot

Robot or Not?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2015 1:54


Dressed up like a ghost - He tried to hitch his way across the country, but was dismembered in Philadelphia. Image by archier on Flickr. Host John Siracusa and Jason Snell.

Tall Can Audio
Audio Whiplash Ep016: Dinkbot Rides Again

Tall Can Audio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2015 60:45


The horrifying demise of Hitchbot - the happy hitch hiking robot. Also, the NSA is hacking the UN. So, that's a thing.

TechStuff
The Sad Tale of HitchBot

TechStuff

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2015 58:01


What was HitchBot all about and what happened to it? From hitchiking across Canada to a violent end in Philadelphia, we tell the robot's story. Scott Benjamin guest hosts. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Live from the Barrage
0136 - Hitchbot Takeover

Live from the Barrage

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2015 152:20


Podcast Episode

WANHTPY
Ep91 64 You Shoot It, Of Course

WANHTPY

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2015 65:02


This time we have with us That Frakking Cat from the Midnight Movie Knights podcast. We discuss the letter K, the Manchurian Candidate, Wet Hot American Summer, guns and shooting, Donald Trump, and Hitchbot. We close off with a Family Feud game sort of thing. If you enjoy the content, don't forget to like & share this post! http://wearenotheretopleaseyou.blogspot.fi http://www.podgodsnetwork.com/

WANHTPY
Ep91 320 You Shoot It, Of Course

WANHTPY

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2015 65:02


This time we have with us That Frakking Cat from the Midnight Movie Knights podcast. We discuss the letter K, the Manchurian Candidate, Wet Hot American Summer, guns and shooting, Donald Trump, and Hitchbot. We close off with a Family Feud game sort of thing. If you enjoy the content, don't forget to like & share this post! http://wearenotheretopleaseyou.blogspot.fi http://www.podgodsnetwork.com/

Version Control: Pound & Grain's Digital News Show
AI are the new zombies edition | Version Control: Pound & Grain's Digital News Show Episode #2

Version Control: Pound & Grain's Digital News Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2015 44:05


Creative Director Jackson Murphy & Writer Nick Kewin of Pound & Grain break down everything they know about robots, and lots they aren’t qualified to talk about. We dive into the end of social experiment HitchBot, the rise of Artificial Intelligence and robots in film and TV, and the implications robots may have on our digital marketing world. Plus our 'picks' for the latest in robot news.

Faces And Aces: Las Vegas
S1E6: King For A Day

Faces And Aces: Las Vegas

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2015 71:34


August 16, 2015 – Aaron benefits from the largesse of his relatives and Chris mourns the loss of hitchBOT. Show Notes: Aria Sky Suites, R.I.P. hitchBOT What Happened In Vegas News: Life is Beautiful Speaker Lineup, Life is Beautiful One Day Tickets, Riviera To Be Demolished, Upscale Movie Theater in DTVL Faces: We go to LV Comic Con and interview FluffiKitten and GothamPD. We talk a little about art & culture in DTLV. We then talk to Adam from the Vegas Fanboy Podcast and learn about his love for Vegas and we also talk about the origin story of his podcast. Aces:  Aria Sky Suites Tip The Player: Vegas Fanboy Adam talks about the “House Money Effect“.

Memoirs of a T-Rex
Sex, Drugs and HitchBOT

Memoirs of a T-Rex

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2015 55:04


The guys and I discuss different drug smuggling strategies via drone or submarine. We talk about the power of makeup for women, and we tell the REAL STORY behind HitchBOT. Feel free to hit us up with anything you might have or want us to talk about. Twitter: @Memoirsofatrex Facebook.com/Memoirsofatrex Memoirsofatrex@yahoo.com

Anorak Cafe Podcast » Podcast
ACP # 12 Magic the gathering , pax south, hitchbot, amiibo, browser games, and much much more.

Anorak Cafe Podcast » Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2015


Sorry about the audio after about 30 min mark. Something happened to the settings while we were recording. This week we are talking about MTG, PAX South, murder of Hitchbot, some browser games, and much much more. We are having a 1st ed Toad amiibo give-a-way. Rules are very simple: 1 like and follow our […]

Dueling Ogres
Episode 54: Of Boots on the Legs and Gloves on the Feet

Dueling Ogres

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2015 55:28


Rem bores Brandon to death with Blizzard news, Brandon falls in love with Windows 8, and we bring you the next Fuckshit of the Week (#FSotW)! Hang on to your pants, nerds. It's going to get moist in here! Episode Features: Outtakes at the end. Like us on  AMA @ (978) DUOGRES ((978) 386-4737) Follow us on twitter  [Intro uses the "Black Vortex" track by Kevin Macleod (). Licensed under  Outtro: , Licensed under .]   Tags: #podcast, #pepsivcoke, #cows, #gamescom, #blizzard, #hearthstone, #mtgduels, #wowsubdrop, #windows10, #spiderman, #dndmovie, #hitchbot, #fsotw, #hauntedwarehouse

Appel & Ei - heinkedigital.com
AE#28 - Wo man auf Schwarze schießt, zerstört man auch Roboter

Appel & Ei - heinkedigital.com

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2015


Download Appel & Ei #28 - Wo man auf Schwarze schießt, zerstört man auch Roboter mit Tim Krauss (@ebauche] und Christian Heinke (@heinkedigital)0:00:00 Vorspann0:01:06 Appel Themen0:01:19 Apple Q30:04:20 Apple Music0:17:44 Ei Themen0:17:58 Aus Google wird Alphabet0:27:22 Google News Spanien0:34:27 Stagefright0:40:35 OnePlus Two0:47:03 Windows 101:12:17 iOS Development1:14:20 HitchBot zerstört in Philadelphia1:18:01 Showtitle!1:21:32 Picks1:21:38 Nuzzel1:28:05 Udemy

UnHeard Of
19 - Mexicans Don't Have Smile Muscles

UnHeard Of

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2015 76:38


Guess who's back? That's right, it's everyone's favorite 4 foot tall, balding Clevelander. Craig's back from his sexually open trip and boy is he defensive about his spot on the show. The guys talk about deflategate, Ronda Rousey, Craig's irrational hatred of sports jerseys, Lebron in the NFL, Jamaal Charles' absurd claim, and Philly destroying Hitchbot. Intro song: A Real Hero by College ft Electric Youth

CTE Podcast
CTE Podcast #30 - Vulnerabilidades en Android

CTE Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2015 30:16


Notas del show: Vulnerabilidades en Android Noticias de la semana El idiota de la semana - Fotos de HitchBOT: http://m.hitchbot.me/gallery/ Parques sin barreras para los niños: Más información -  http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/08/04/425912755/play-hard-live-free-where-wild-play-still-rules Ilustrado de la semana - Isis Wenger. Artículo que escribió: https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/you-may-have-seen-my-face-on-bart-8b9561003e0f #iLookLikeAnEngineer - https://twitter.com/hashtag/ILookLikeAnEngineer Hoy en la Historia - Ataques en Hiroshima y Nagasaki (6 y 9 de Agosto de 1945) Frase de la semana: "Un niño siempre puede enseñar tres cosas a un adulto: a ponerse contento sin motivo, a estar siempre ocupado con algo y a saber exigir con todas sus fuerzas aquello que desea" -Paulo Coelho (Novelista Brasileño)   Mándanos tus comentarios a info@ctepodcast.com y suscríbete en iTunes!

We Have Concerns
Hitches Get Stitches

We Have Concerns

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2015 18:40


We talk a lot about whether we can trust robots, but can robots trust us? HitchBOT was a robot on a goodwill tour of the world, depending on the kindness of strangers to get from one end of a country to the other. After successful tours of Canada and various parts of Europe, it came to the US. We killed it. We killed it good. What does this say about the US? What about the future of AI? GET SOME WE HAVE CONCERNS SHIRTS: http://wehaveconcerns.com/shop Submit a story! Email wehaveconcernsshow@gmail.com or visit our subreddit Today's story was submitted by literally everyone on the planet. HitchBOT Homepage HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philadelphia HitchBOT Was A Literal Pile Of Trash And Got What It Deserved Here's Video of the Jerk Who Killed hitchBOT (Update: It's a Hoax)

Salty Language
Salty Language 210 - It's Like A Clown...

Salty Language

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2015 90:46


New Salty Language 210 - It's Like A Clown...www.saltylanguage.comTony and Bryan discuss Rowdy Roddy Piper's death, Rousey's quick win, Hitchbot, Tony being smooth at Starbucks, Deadpool trailer, going to a tap takeover, our Q of the W recap, this week's Q of the W, and more! Links: Rousey: http://goo.gl/Av6lHd Hitchbot; http://goo.gl/H79mAk Deadpool trailers: http://goo.gl/ppF6i3 Short's Brewing: https://www.shortsbrewing.com/WWE tribute To Rowdy Roddy Piper: https://youtu.be/VBMTYUjuuMg   Salty Language Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/user?u=344704   Subscribe / rate / review us on iTunes!Visit us at: saltylanguage.com salty-language.tumblr.com / facebook.com/saltylanguage@salty_language / saltylanguage@gmail.com http://salty.libsyn.com/webpage  /http://www.youtube.com/user/SaltyLanguagePod Instagram: SaltyLanguageReddit: r/saltylanguageOn Stitcher search Salty Language Voicemail: (415) 857-2589http://podgods.webs.com/musingsofageek.comtangentboundnetwork.comdangerentertainment.netwickedradionetwork.comgeekliferadio.comShare with your friends!

Pop My Culture Podcast
PMC 186: Jess Harnell

Pop My Culture Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2015 61:41


Jess Harnell ("Animaniacs," "Doc McStuffins") chats with Cole and Vanessa about the sad demise of Hitchbot, Mick Fanning's shark encounter, Andrea Romano, meeting Steven Spielberg, Rock Sugar, Paul Stanley, Grim Gloom, finding the Sewer Urchin's voice, Oasis, "throat rippers," Kramer, Splash Mountain and Jess trying to convince a skeptical 11 year-old that he's the voice of Wakko. Leave your answer to the firsts question (the first computer game you were into) on our website for a chance to win an "Animaniacs" box set autographed by both Jess and past guest Rob Paulsen (that's Wakko and Yakko, folks!)

Journey Into Mystery Science
Spread on the Glitter

Journey Into Mystery Science

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2015 65:24


This week on Journey Into Mystery Science:   Deadpool. Hitchbot. Warcraft. Weirdness.

Wush & Boon
Episode 64 – Hitchbot

Wush & Boon

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2015 154:43


Wush & Boon Episode: 64 Duration: 2:34:42 Size: 142mb iTunes RSS Summary: Raising a child, True Detective, Bill Cosby’s family claiming women consented to be raped, secret footage of Hitchbot’s last moments, the internet is becoming a parody of itself, Daym Drops food reviews, Uber drivers can make $90,000 a year and Wush wants to […] The post Episode 64 – Hitchbot appeared first on Podtrash.

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher
"This is America, Beer & Whiskey when we want it!" and HitchBot: We can rebuild it! 8/9/15

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2015 74:39


Today on the Jeff Fisher Show, Jeffy gets bummed out by HitchBot's beating in Philly. Jeffy also talks about psychotic synthetics causing chaos in NYC. Plus, boozing in your golden years and pandas playing pregnant!All that and more on The Jeff Fisher Show! Jeff Fisher is live from 6am to 8am ET, Saturday. Listen for free on The Blaze Radio Network:www.theblaze.com/radio &www.iheart.comFollow Jeffy on Twitter @JeffyMRAJ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Drill Down
388: City of Robotly Hate

The Drill Down

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2015 60:15


This week, Windows 10 is blowing up, a killer Mac exploit, Yahoo is attacked, What does an engineer look like?, the end of Hitchbot, and the hoverboard is back, yes, again...but this time it really works (kinda)... and much much more What We're Playing With Andy: Windows 10 Headlines Microsoft Windows 10 installed on 14m devices in first 24 hours Windows 10 spying: How to opt out of Microsoft's intrusive terms of use How To Stop Windows 10's Spying Ads Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Hackers Exploit 'Flash' Vulnerability in Yahoo Ads Audible Book of the Week How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown Music Break: Hitchin' A Ride by Green Day More Headlines Apple in talks to launch an MVNO in the US and Europe Apple denies that it has discussed or plans to launch an MVNO #ILookLikeAnEngineer challenges stereotypes Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited' Maternity And Paternity Leave Program America proves too tough for hitchhiking robot after vandals end cross-country trip The Drill Down Videos of the Week The Lexus Hoverboard: It's here The Lexus Hoverboard: The Story Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter Geeks Of Doom's The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

The Lotuscast
RIP Jon Daily Show

The Lotuscast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2015 199:08


Tonight Tom Larney joins us! He plays in a band called The Cowpunks. Joe talks about Hitchbot and we make fun of him for it. www.facebook.com/thecowpunks @xtomrulesx

Conversations for our Grandkids

Music by Noel Scales Intro: Good Girl Outro: Hard Love NOEL SCALES, SEAMUS' UFC CORNER, RONDA ROUSEY, FALLON FOX THE TRANS CHAMP, PHANTOM DICK SYNDROME, JAZZ, TRANSGENDER MORTAL KOMBAT, FREE INHABITANT, ADAM AND SEAMUS FIGHT THE POWER, ANT-MAN, IT FOLLOWS, AWKWARD TRUMP, THE ACT OF KILLING, HITCHBOT, PHILADELPHIA JERKS, BLACK ROBOTS MATTER, #ALLLIVESMATTER, ABSTRACT RACISM, @CONVO4GRANDKIDS

Turing-Incomplete
59: Evil Leader

Turing-Incomplete

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2015 43:04


Surprise! More Elixir! Also some upcoming conferences, the future of our economy, Emacs, and HitchBOT's demise. Tatsu. Standup meetings for remote teams. ignu/spyfall-slack tonini/alchemist.el syl20bnr/spacemacs ElixirConf 2015 Open Source & Feelings Phoenix Screencasts Clojure/conj 2015 Spread Bagelry - Montreal Style Wood Oven Bagels in Philadelphia The On-Demand Diaries: I Was A TaskRabbit Butler — On Demand — Medium hitchBOT - A robot exploring the world

Ozone Nightmare
Xena: Warrior Coyote

Ozone Nightmare

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2015 94:14


This week: Fear And Loathing In Las VegasJurassic ParkHamill GagsPatlabor: The MovieHitchbotPequod's Music for the show provided by Reed Love.

No Bad Food
10. Special Guest Nathan Proudlove!

No Bad Food

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2015 63:13


Tim and Tom sit down with special guest Nathan Proudlove @nbproudlove and talk about Lego, video games, hip hop, HitchBot, and all kinds of other things. Check out our sponsors at Beardbangs! Go to https://www.etsy.com/shop/beardbangs and enter the promo code UPFORDISCUSSION to get $10 OFF your order! You can watch this show on Periscope by following us @DownWithTalking! Get a live preview of the show while we record it, complete with awkward camera stuff! Follow us all on the Twitter @DownWithTalking @acapellascience @tomzalatnai @notheothersimon @nbproudlove

Jim Krenn No Restrictions
Tenure Means Nothing in Comedy

Jim Krenn No Restrictions

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2015 57:38


Jimmy, Terry, Mike & Mike welcome special guest comedian T-Robe back to the studio to talk about HitchBOT?s demise in Philadelphia, Ronda Rousey?s 34 second win, Muhammed Ali?s greatest fights, the similarities between boxing and stand-up comedy and much more? * FOLLOW TEAM KRENN: http://JimKrenn.com @JimKrenn, @TjonesPoc, @ItsMikeWysocki, @MikeSasson, @JoshFoglio, @WayneWeil, @TalentNetworkTV, @SideshowNetwork, @PrimeCoreGroup @Q929FM @trobecomedy * CONTACT THE PODCAST: talent network, inc. http://talentnetworkinc.com mail@talentnetworkinc.com The ?Jim Krenn: No Restrictions? Podcast is proudly sponsored by: Diversity, Pittsburgh?s Original Vapor Shop | http://diversityshoppittsburgh.com/ Puzzle Pax, Hand-Crafted Wooden Six-Pack Puzzles | http://www.puzzlepax.com

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For All Nerds Show
Star Wars Vs. Hitchbot Vs. Star Trek Vs. Philly

For All Nerds Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2015 57:43


This week's episode of the FanBros Show is brought to you by beef. Hitchbot Vs. Philly, Drake Vs. Meek Mill. Canada Vs. Philly. But is this beef rare? Or overcooked? Are these puns going over your head?

TYT combine!
The Young Turks - 8.04.15: Lindsay Graham, Ag Gag, HitchBOT, and Darren Wilson

TYT combine!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2015


A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from August 4, 2015. For more go to http://www.tytmembership.com.  Lindsey Graham attacked Hillary Clinton on her honesty by evoking Monica Lewinsky. Video of his pitch. The top 10 lineup for the main GOP debate has been announced. Discussion about the talking points that will most likely be covered by the candidates. Ag-Gag laws were passed in Utah to keep activists from recording and exposing inhuman and safety protocols in meat packing plants. Video of some workers abusing cows in factory farms. Bobby Jindal has announced he will be eliminating Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood offices in Louisiana over the heavily edited tapes of PP officials discussing transportation of fetal tissue. There are already only two facilities in the state. Ana, Karamo Brown, and Becca Frucht for SCS. A hitchhiking robot that successfully made it from Canada thru Europe, was destroyed when it made it to Philadelphia. Ana and Karamo don't care about this, while Becca sees the societal implications. An elementary school officer handcuffed an 8 year old boy that suffers from PTSD and ADHD. Video of the abuse. The officer has a history of doing this to children. Darren Wilson was interviewed by the New Yorker about his thoughts on Black and White culture in America. Ana reads some excerpts that illustrate his thoughts on how Black Americans choose the wrong one. After calling the Black upbringing full of failure, he revealed that his mother was a thief that took from him, without recognition of irony.

Cave Crew Radio
Cave Crew Radio 25 Sir Big B the Duke of pee

Cave Crew Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2015


Roll out the red carpet folks. We have a huge show for you tonight. First up Big B and DK welcome the Queen of England to the show. She is making a special appearance in hopes of mending bridges with Big B, whom as we know can not stand the royal family. She is in perfect form in the cave drinking whickles and about to knight our dear Big B. While we lost a little bit of the audio at the begining, her visit proves to be a classic. Big B has been knighted by her majesty has Sir Big B the Duke of urine stench alley. Well the rest must be heard and not told. Also up from Hockey Night in Punjabi, its the one and only Salami Kar Pai Pai. In the wake of NHL expansion he brings us the New Delhi Bologna Sandwiches. Finally but not least we have the man of 1000 voices Matt Vanderpool stop by. During this festive summer night we talk about Hitchbot the hitch hiking Canadian robot, a scarecrow with a dildo that's to die for, and our always popular Florida top 10, that features strange things in your pants and 36000 pounds of Crisco. There truly is to much to tell you inside these show notes. So join Mr Wednesday Night and the Duke of pee for a most memorable night. Cave Crew Radio airs every Wednesday night at 9pm eastern on AllradioX M&T and check out the home page www.doublekradio.com Please go like the Facebook page Cave Crew Radio. We will catch you on the flip flop.

Stupidly Small
Episode 181: 181: Father Sparklepants becomes a cop

Stupidly Small

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2015 29:06


The devastating article about gender bias: http://jezebel.com/homme-de-plume-what-i-learned-sending-my-novel-out-und-1720637627   Hitchbot: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/03/hitchbot-hitchhiking-robot-destroyed-philadelphia   This week’s sponsors: Joyful Ceremonies! 10% off for YOU! http://www.joyfulceremonies.com.au

Clockwise
Clockwise 98: Robot-Kicking Problem

Clockwise

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2015 30:00


Apple's cell service plans (or lack thereof), HitchBot's demise, Windows 10's privacy snafu, and the end of removable batteries and SD cards in phones.

Ghost Chronicles
Cecil the Lion and HitchBOT

Ghost Chronicles

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2015 56:45


Brant & Sherri Oddcast
August 3rd Podcast!

Brant & Sherri Oddcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 22:21


What's the Ultimate Thing?, New to the Show, Sleeve Strategy at an Interview, Something To Do With Your Life, Monday Song, How God Identifies Himself, The Hitchbot, Saeed Abedini, Where is God in Suffering, He's Holding Us Together, Brant Is EXACTLY What You Think, How God Sees Us   Quotes:   "For job interviews there is a certain sleeve strategy ."   "For me, I'm making the ultimate thing Jesus. Everything else can and will leave you."   "Sherri is like a filter for the show that can't stop everything."   "God is good. When I have to put all my chips on one space, it's that."   "Join me in rethinking every thing and living in light of the fact that God loves you."

PSNStores Podcast
PSNStores Podcast 151 - Hitchbot

PSNStores Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 88:20


This week we mourn the loss of Hitchbot and get into a lengthy discussion about video game prices.

Philly Influencer Podcast
Philly Influencer Live Episode #10: Who killed the Hitchbot & Eagles open practice!

Philly Influencer Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 59:59


Sean Brace & John Barchard open things up with solving the Hitchbot beheading. Eagles open practice, Patrick Wall joins us live from the Linc. Is Bradford the #1 QB? Tebow look good?

G.E.E.K Podcast
G.E.E.K 118 - Hitchbot

G.E.E.K Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 63:09


This week the G.E.E.Ks discuss MCM Manchester Comic-Con, Deadpool, Hulk Hogan, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Space Jam 2, Steve Guttenberg, The Muppets TV show, the Attack On Titan movie, Hitchbot and one more thing... Japan’s oldest idol group! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

PittsburghPodcastNetwork
Jim Krenn "No Restrictions" Podcast Rewind | #128

PittsburghPodcastNetwork

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 56:32


Tenure Means Nothing in Comedy Jimmy, Terry, Mike & Mike welcome special guest comedian T-Robe back to the studio to talk about HitchBOT?s demise in Philadelphia, Ronda Rousey?s 34 second win, Muhammed Ali?s greatest fights, the similarities between boxing and stand-up comedy and much more? ORIGINAL AIR DATE: August 06, 2015 via SideShow Network @Sideshownetwork * FOLLOW TEAM KRENN: JimKrenn.com @JimKrenn, @TjonesPoc, @ItsMikeWysocki, @MikeSasson, @WayneWeil, @TalentNetworkTV, @PGHPodcast, @PGHonDemand, @Q929fm * CONTACT THE PODCAST: talent network, inc. talentnetworkinc.com mail@talentnetworkinc.com * PROUDLY SPONSORED BY: — Diversity, Pittsburgh's Original Vapor Shop | diversityshoppittsburgh.com/ — PrimeCore Group, A global commercial collections agency | primecoregroup.com/

Jeremiah wonders...
The Building Years- Episode 237: Mission Impossible, Hitchbot, and Domestic Violence

Jeremiah wonders...

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 29:48


Justin and Jeremiah talk about the new Mission Impossible Movie, Hitchbot, and their views on domestic violence.

P3 Nyheter
Hitchbot, HBTQ-boenden, värmebölja och fertilitetsgränser

P3 Nyheter

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2015 21:48


Hitchbot liftar genom världen, i USA stötte den på patrull. Asylboenden för HBTQ-personer för en säkrare tillvaro. Forskare om hur man ökar chansen för fler barn. Och värmeböljan kommer, men inte hit.

SModCoSMorningShow
#389: Tuesday, August 4, 2015

SModCoSMorningShow

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2015 126:52


It's a Sinister Six-some with MIRPs galore! Justice League, HitchBot, Jon Stewart, obligatory poop talk and more! @martyyu @BillTweeterson @GiseleNett @stephenkrueger @casscardenes @JohnPirruccello

Wandering Adventurers
Wandering Adventurers 8/3/15

Wandering Adventurers

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2015 68:26


This weeks Adventurers are Sam, Tyler, and Garrett. Email us - podcast@wanderingadventurers.com This week Tyler is in a Strain and feels like visiting the Borderlands before they were cool. Sam Just cannot get enough of hackers or Blizzard. Garrett is having a Wet, Hot, American Summer and we all mourn the untimely passing of Hitchbot.

Trends Like These
Monday Mini-sode 11: Hitchbot

Trends Like These

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2015 21:08


Happy Monday everyone! Well, maybe not everyone. If you are a robot traveling across America, this is not a very happy Monday at all! We discuss the tragedy that befell Hitchbot as he attempted to hitchhike his way across America. Hop on in friends, let's go for a ride!

KoreCast
KoreCast Ep 2: Michelle's HitchBOT

KoreCast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2015 31:38


In this episode Korey is joined by Woolly Rhino Crafts maker Michelle Ribar, as they catch up and talk a bit about HitchBOT.

Under the News Desk with CJ Delling
UTND 007: The Hitchbot’s Guide to Everything

Under the News Desk with CJ Delling

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2014 27:15


NEWS: A robot called Hitchbot travels across Canada. CJ Delling and co-anchor comedian Ethan Andrews (on Twitter @ethanisatuni) comment on ... Read More

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Personal Arrogants
Episode 208: Hitchbot Is My Copliot

Personal Arrogants

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2014 92:07


This week on the show, Rocky Mountain Correspondent Levi fills in for Jesse to chat about robot hitch hikers, patent trolls, and the games of Fantasy Flight. Plus, your Facebook roundup! Listen up and feed us back! Send us an email Tweet our twitter Face our Book Or give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 360-362-0024 (and we’ll play it on the cast) Thanks for listening!

La Nube de BLU Radio
HitchBOT, el robot que cautivó a los canadienses

La Nube de BLU Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2014 1:54


HitchBOT es un robot creado por un equipo investigadores que estudia la relación entre personas y la tecnología. Según los científicos, “Lo que se... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

La Nube de BLU Radio
Programa completo La Nube 19 de agosto de 2014

La Nube de BLU Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2014 55:30


HitchBOT, el robot que cautivó a los canadienses: HitchBOT es un robot creado por un equipo investigadores que estudia la relación entre personas y la... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

G.E.E.K Podcast
G.E.E.K 78 - Howard

G.E.E.K Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2014 73:37


The G.E.E.Ks discuss the latest gaming news from GamesCom including Silent Hills, Resident Evil remake, Dreamfall Chapters, plus Guardians Of The Galaxy, Sharknado 2, Vin Deisel's beautiful singing voice, DC's movie roadmap, Monkey Island Lego, Robin Williams and one more thing... Hitchbot! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Digital – detektor.fm
Roboter Hitchbot fährt durch Kanada - Per Anhalter durch Kanada

Digital – detektor.fm

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2014 8:07


Er trägt gelbe Kindergummistiefel mit bunten Motiven, farblich dazu passend trägt er qietschgelbe Gummihandschuhe. Der Daumen der rechten Hand ist stets erhoben, denn er will per Anhalter mitgenommen werden. „Hitchbot“ ist ein Roboter und seit gut einer Woche auf den Straßen Kanadas unterwegs. >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/digital/roboter-hitchbot-faehrt-durch-kanada