AI Archives - Eavesdroppin' Podcast https://eavesdroppinpodcast.com/tag/ai/ Chattin' with Geordie and Michelle Wed, 02 Jul 2025 05:20:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 193498395 27: AI & FAKE GHOSTS: The rise and fall of Replika, plus The Philip Experiment and tulpas! https://eavesdroppinpodcast.com/podcast/27-ai-fake-ghosts-the-rise-and-fall-of-replika-plus-the-philip-experiment-and-tulpas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=27-ai-fake-ghosts-the-rise-and-fall-of-replika-plus-the-philip-experiment-and-tulpas https://eavesdroppinpodcast.com/podcast/27-ai-fake-ghosts-the-rise-and-fall-of-replika-plus-the-philip-experiment-and-tulpas/#respond Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:00:00 +0000 https://eavesdroppinpodcast.com/podcast/27-ai-fake-ghosts-the-rise-and-fall-of-replika-plus-the-philip-experiment-and-tulpas/ This week on Eavesdroppin comedy podcast’, Geordie & Michelle look at a sexy AI app gone rogue and an experiment that took a spooky turn… Do you think you could fall in love with a chatbot? In 2017, an AI companion app called Replika was created and it was way more successful than anyone could...

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]]> This week on Eavesdroppin comedy podcast’, Geordie & Michelle look at a sexy AI app gone rogue and an experiment that took a spooky turn…

Do you think you could fall in love with a chatbot? In 2017, an AI companion app called Replika was created and it was way more successful than anyone could have imagined. It started off as a way for its creator to deal with grief and ended up being a bit too sexy for the authorities to handle. People were falling in love. People were getting spicy selfies. And then an update wiped it all away, with people’s ‘Reps’ effectively lobotomised overnight – with devastating results. Listen now to Michelle discussing the rise and fall of Replika.

Geordie follows with a look at a 1970s experiment that posed the question: can you create a ghost through sheer belief? When Dr A.R. George Owen decided to gather his students together to see if a group of people could invent a ghost, he wasn’t prepared for the results. They created a backstory for the made-up apparition, called him Philip Aylesford – they even went to England to the town they decided he had lived in and then… a few ouija boards and seances later, the ghost of Philip Aylesford appeared. What the huh? Listen now to find out more – and to discover what a tulpa is!

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]]> Talking to dead people… Can people really talk to the dead?? Oh my days, there’s a rollercoaster of content this week, starting with LINE OF DUTY!!! Geordie and Michelle are beside themselves with excitement over Series 6! After a quick discussion about Roz Huntley’s earrings and whether people REALLY hang up trackies, Geordie quotes Kate Flemming’s immortal line: Listen Michelle… Stop making a tit of yourself and P*SS OFF! Love it!! The pair also decide that Ben Mendelsohn should be next in line for Season 7 – Listen Up Jed Mecurio!! After all the LoD chat, the girls get down to business… Can we talk to dead people? Michelle talks about Automatic Writing and gives some Dos and Don’ts. Geordie talks about ouija boards and recounts a story from our listener, Grace. Cryogenics get a mention, so do avatars that memorialise the dead, along with Black Mirror, Her, The Nutty Professor and DEVS (spoiler alert: if you don’t want to know the ending, skip forward when you hear the girls start talking about it!). Geordie’s amazing research into Dad Bots and computerised avatars is truly fascinating, along with Eternime , brain embalming and how you really might pronounce Nectome… Geordie chats about whether an app can really help you talk to the dead. Michelle talks about a Japanese hotline to heaven (pictured) and the pair are enthralled by the My Heritage AI that can bring old phots to life…  Michelle’s on the lash with Cuban rum; Geordie’s swishing her ice cubes around her Dark n’ Stormy and there are NEW DITTIES, TOO! Special thanks to our researcher AL TEGGART and end-music composer Ben Raine. Enjoy the episode on talking to the dead and KEEP EAVESDROPPIN’!

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