31 | AI helped make this podcast - with special guest: ChatGPT

Is AI coming to recommend our next vegan lunch? Or eat it?

This week, Richard and Dave satisfy their simmering hunger for knowledge by cozying up to ChatGPT, the headline-dominating AI language model developed by a company called OpenAI and launched a mere three months ago.

In a wide-ranging interview with this flashy new bundle of code, the guys try to get the measure of just what a language model AI is, what it can do for us and what it can't, and wrap up with a Siskel & Ebert-style assessment of where all this might be going.

As a bonus, Dave opines on America's swift and glorious victory in the recent Balloon War with the People's Republic of China.

Special note: The thumbnail graphic for this episode was generated in DreamStudio by Stability AI, a new AI system powered by Stable Diffusion, which is a deep learning text-to-image model released in 2022. Stable Diffusion can create realistic images, art, and animation from a description in a natural language prompt. Richard supplied the natural language prompt 'AI chatbot conversing with two podcasters in the style of Ralph Steadman.'

Music and image credits:
Semi-Retired “flipz” theme by tubebackr from SoundCloud
Music promoted by free-stock-music.com
Maple Leaf by Vectoro Artworks from Vecteezy
Perforated steel by YuriyC from VectorStock