Robots on Typewriters: Recent Episodes
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It's no secret that the world of computational creativity is much different today than it was five years ago, so it seems like the right moment to put this robot into sleep mode.
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much if you've followed us along this journey, if you've laughed at our stupidest jokes, if you've explored the tools we talked about, if you enjoyed the silly stories we told about silly people, if you spent any of your valuable time listening to this podcast at all.
We're not gone forever and we will certainly have a new podcast on the horizon hopefully soon, so please keep in touch with us if you'd like to follow us into whatever comes next!
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You didn't think we forgot about the annual Robots on Typewriters White Elephant Gift Exchange, did you? Of course not! Just a bit belated, even though hot tub season is through. But first, we also of course have to talk about the guy who will have everyone asking why you invited him to your party: ChatGPT.
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It's the beginning of the Robots on Typewriters holiday season with a belated Thanksgiving meal! Gather round the table for some cough syrup cocktails and conquistador potatoes.
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This week, we are joined by dear old friend of the pod Mario Gambino, who helps us develop a newer,…
This week, we take a look at a Twitter thread about a horrifying woman “haunting” one artist’s GAN outputs. Then,…
This week, we’re in the same room! We talk about a bit of controversy around AI-generated art and then play…
On a very foodie episode, we look at some Ai Weirdness food and beverage. Then, we indulge some judges with…
A minisode from Justin on the floor at CUI 2022 this July, talking about the event hosted by himself and…
This week, we take a look at some more fun with DALL-E 2. Then, we meet two new rowdy lads…
Our necks are breaking under the weight of this heavy hat this week, between the viral sensatio of Dall-e Mini…
This week, Justin gets us acquainted with two new, huge (language) models in your area. Then, Inspector Roboto has some…
This week, we are joined by dear friend and foe of the show, Leigh Clark! (Dr. Leigh Michael Harry Clark,…
Welcome to Season 2 of Robots on Typewriters! You might notice a few changes around here, but the hats are…
On this, the unexpected finale of the first season of Robots on Typewriters, we discuss the recent hubbub around DALL-E…
This week, we open the mailbag and share some creative works our listeners have shared. Then, we begin to draw…
What’s that? The sound of This Magic Moment followed by Jock Jams? That’s right, it’s March Madness 2022! But first,…
This week, we are joined by writer and comedian Nat Towsen from Botnik Studios! He shares a bit about his…
There’s always been something strange about Peter Vees… But what had Joshua Wilkinson so concerned about him at the gift…
This week, we talk about a fun new tool from Hugging Face, SWAG. Then, we do some light shopping for…
It’s the third annual Robots on Typewriters White Elephant Gift Exchange! Some of our closest and worst friends gather to…
It’s the Yuletide season and that means thirteen things: Yule Lads! (Hey, no – just pretend it’s still Christmas. In…
With the introduction of a poorly executed new algorithm, we spend an episode discussing Ask Delphi and subsequently using it…
It’s never too late for Botober 2021 (even though this was recorded before it even started…) Then, we play two…
This week, Justin shares a phenomenal video that not only uses Styleclip in a creative way, but promotes an understanding…
This week, we return to Allison’s Twitter Bot corner and find one of our all time favorite bots ever. Then,…
This week, Justin recaps a bit of the ongoings at CUI 2021. We also rifle through the mail bag, which…
Woof, another unintentional hiatus – but we should be back for good! On this nearly two month old episode, we…
We’re finally back… This week, we talk about a (now old) AiWeirdness post introducing us to some rather interesting men.…
It’s a Father’s Day tradition in this house to have Dr. Leigh Michael Harry Clark join us to talk about…
This week, we discuss LaMDA, Google’s imminent dialogue-focused language model. Then, dust off all your songs about moms, it’s Eurovision…
This week, Justin and Allison are in the same room and celebrating Mother’s Day with our favorite complicated mother-son relationship……
This week, we explore StyleCLIP, a GAN that uses text to influence images. Then, we look into some of the…
This week, we check back in with some recent AiWeirdness content and then, return to an old friend who seems…
This week, Allison brings a tiny little Twitter bot corner so that we can get straight to the good stuff…
This week, we talk about some recent discussions around GPT-3 and transparency. Then, we and some of our good friends…
This week, Justin brings us some pessimistic news from the world of AI. Then, we generate some Dr. Seuss stories…
This week is a bit of a belated Valentine’s Day hat as we explore some potential bot suitors and some…
This week, Justin brings to us some big, zesty news in the world of transformers coming to us from Google.…
This week, Allison shares a video by a YouTuber who recently explored the world of creative AI. Then, we dive…
This week, Justin shares with us some musical creations made with a tool called Magenta. Then, we learn how to…
This week, Allison shares some highlights from Luba Elliott’s most recent Computational Creativity Newsletter. Then, we pick up with our…
We’re back! It’s a new year and we’ve got some news in GPT-3 visual art from Open AI! Then, we…
It’s that time of year again – time for the Robots on Typewriters White Elephant exchange! But before our beloved…
This week, Justin gives a bit of a mysterious, musical update to his Blaseball Bleat and then shares a confluence…
This week as ProcJam 2020 comes to a close, we take a look back through some entries from the years…
This week, Justin introduces a new segment he’s calling Justin’s Blaseball Beat, with a brief update on some interesting happenings…
This week, we look into a strange competition between two chatbots, a conversation you can still observe in action as…
Justin fills us in on an update from AIDungeon regarding a new feature and pricing structure. Then, we play the…
This week, we take a trip to the Twitter Bot Corner to hype our new one, Combination Bot, along with…
This week, Justin discusses a published paper about machine learning that missed the mark on some things. Then, we round…
This week, Allison shares a blog post that took a look into a mysterious GPT-3 powered Reddit user. Then, we…
This week, Justin shares an entertaining new feature on Facebook, suggested by a listener, and some news about the future…
This week, Allison shares some information about ProcJam 2020, coming this December! Then, Justin leads us in a game of…
This week, our good FOTP (friend of the pod) Mario Gambino joins us once more to continue a story of…
This week, we check out some unsettling dogs from the Twitter account @dog_fakes. Then, Justin tests Allison’s knowledge of meme…
This week, Justin preps us for the upcoming AI-prompted art challenge, Botober. Then, we bring some of our favorite chatbots…
No, you’re hearing it correctly – this is a near-replica of Episode 114, except we’re reading from the automatic closed…
This week, we return to Allison’s Twitter Bot corner with a handful of fun bots to follow. Then, we play…
This week, Justin’s hat is brought to us partially by a listener, partially by PC Gamer – fun with procedural…
This week, we take some personality quizzes written with GPT-3 by Janelle Shane. Then, we open the mailbag and read…
This week, we share some delightful things that were shared with us by some of you listeners! Then, we lay…
This week, we delight in some GPT-3-written Quarantine House memes from AI Weirdness. Then, Allison’s formidable sports knowledge is tested…
This week, we talk about Face Depixelizer, a fun Google Colab that uses a GAN to generate a face from…
This week, Justin briefs us on a big development in the language generation field – GPT-3! Then, we use its…
This week, we make a return Allison’s Twitter Bot corner with some dreaming bots and Galaxy Brain memes. Then, we…
This week, we are joined by Dr. Leigh Clark, one of the organizers for CUI 2020, and he tells us…
This week, we talk about another podcast that’s telling stories using computers like us! Then, we play an old-fashioned gameshow…
This week, Justin shares with us some art that discusses race and __ in America while utilizing AI and technology.…
This week, Justin introduces a new Google Colab by Max Woolf, aitextgen! Then, we embark on another AI Dungeon adventure…
This week, we have a friend with us! Matt Rutala joins us for first, some ai-generated escape rooms, and then,…
It’s our 100TH EPISODE! Before we celebrate, we pop back to last week’s hat to share some AI Weirdness Jukebox…
This week, it’s hot tub time, and you know what that means. We talk about a new tool from OpenAI,…
This week, Justin talks about a text-to-image tool with mysterious inner-workings. Then, we return to another mystery that was left…
This week, we have an update on a show-favorite game, AI Dungeon. Then, it’s time to play ball! A team…
This week, Justin talks about a fun subreddit manned by GPT-2. Then, we get back in the Robots on Typewriters…
This week, we check in on what our pal Janelle Shane did for April Fools Day this year. Then, we…
This week, we recover from our March Madness stint with a nice, musical hat from Justin. Then, we play our…
It’s week 2 of Robots on Typewriters March Madness and this week, we have a bracket expert with us to…
This week, Allison brings a pleasant museum of procedurally selected bird content. Then, we bring the heat in our own…
This week, Allison introduces a new way to use GANs to turn ingredients into food abominations. Then, we play 20…
This week, Justin shares some more brilliant creative works by listeners (including a Twitter bot generating Jellicle Cats) and a…
This week, Allison brings two little hats: a new Twitter bot she made all by herself (mostly) and some Talk…
This week, Justin talks about a brand new, bigger than ever language model on the scene. Then, we pitch some…
This week, Allison shares some terrible GPT-2 jello-based recipes from Janelle Shane. Then, Justin brings a new twist to an…
This week is all about chatbots as Justin introduces us to Google’s new transformer-driven chatbot, Meena. Then, as love is…
This week, we get an update on a ProcJam 2019 entry and a hilarious Harry Potter piece from Botnik Studios.…
This week, Justin brings a handful of Zesty Tapas, including a fun new GAN app, a papal AI song, and…
This week, Allison brings another installment of Twitter Bot corner, showcasing two playfully delightful bots as well as two that…
We’re back and we’re together in the same room! Justin talks about some fun musical news from Botnik. Then, a…
This week is all about AI Dungeon 2, a popular and extremely fun GPT-2 based RPG. It doubles as both…
This week, Justin shares some of Janelle Shane’s world famous AI Weirdness pies from the past few years. Then, we…
This week, Allison talks about another procedural generation challenge creators participated in throughout the month of November – NaNoGenMo, or…
It’s our ProcJam 2019 episode! Justin highlights just three of his favorite entries to this year’s ProcJam. Then, we use…
This week, Allison shares a Buzzfeed quiz for guessing the real from the GPT-2 by Botnik’s Jamie Brew. Then, the…
This week, Justin delivers some zesty tapas from the Creative AI Newsletter and Allison shares a new Twitter bot made…
This week, Allison has some public service announcements for the computational creativity community. Then, the heat gets turned up in…
This week, Justin talks about some of the most popular bots on Twitter and the article Botwiki creator Stefan Bohacek…
Halloween time is in full swing and we’re getting even more in the spirit with Janelle Shane’s new neural network…
This week, Justin shares a new transformer-based text tool, CTRL. Then, we play two intrepid cryptid hunters who meet some…
This week, Allison shares a little bit more about AInktober, a challenge bringing visual artists and AI together this month!…
Happy Halloween the First! We celebrate the beginning of the spooky season with a special paranormal love story submitted by…
This week, Allison talks about a Twitter bot after our own hearts and a brilliant tool called Music Transformer. Then,…
This week, our friend Kay returns to play a thrilling classic RPG with Justin, run by Allison and interactive Colab…
This week, Allison has a tiny hat that all about real hats, Janelle Shane’s project HAT3000. The big hat this…
This week, Justin does a roundup on the recent conference hosted by his office, CUI! Then, we gather some of…
This week, Allison talks about another Hat that could make a hat, some AI knitting produced by a lab at…
This week, Justin brings us a new fake news-defecting AI who then joins us for our Trashy Toy. Grover detects…
This week, we enjoy some fun new procgen emojis from Emoji Mashup Bot and look into some art installments that…
This week, Justin serves us some zesty sombreros tapas including Janelle Shane’s forthcoming book, a Twitter bot that we could…
It’s the summer episode, man! Allison and Justin are on vacation this week and all about good chilled out fun.…
This week, we are joined by a special guest, Jonah Cooper, from one of our favorite creative forces, Botnik! Jonah…
This week, we get cozy and talk about the collaboration between Janelle Shane and Ravelry, SkyKnit. Then, it’s the second…
On this short, sweet, easy, breezy summer vacation episode, Justin shares some brilliant chair designs made collaboratively by two human…
This week, our friends at Overcast Gamer tested Talk to Transformer’s ability to write Wikis for popular video games. Then,…
As June winds down, we celebrate Pride on the show this week by developing the newest gay supergroup the world…
This week, we meet a sweet new chatbot that we loved so much we took him right into our Trashy…
This week, Justin shares an interesting article that brings into question the amount of energy required to train computational tools…
This week, Justin and Allison are in the same place, joined by Justin’s sister, Chief! Chief talks about Zooniverse, a…
This week, Allison and Justin share some hilarious new petitions Janelle Shane partnered with Change.org to make using GTP-2. Then,…
It’s our first birthday! We started Robots on Typewriters a whole year ago and to celebrate, we looked back on…
This week, Allison brings another musical hat to the table, a new tool created by OpenAi. Then, she interrogates three…
This week, our friend Kayla joins and tells us about some interesting assistive technology! Justin serves us a bunch of…
This week, Allison shares an interesting musical project called Dadabots, streaming continuous RNN-generated death metal. Then, Justin leads a wonderful…
This week, things get a little steamy up in here while we read some WikiSexts. Then, we return to one…
This week, Allison keeps the hat close to home and talks about PlanMyDayBot, Justin’s new venture to intersect Twitter bots…
This week, Justin gives an update on the future of his Twitter bot assignment and talks about a recent AiWeirdness…
This week, Allison talks about a playful Google Doodle that celebrates the fun of music and machine learning. Then, Justin…
This week, Justin’s twitter bot waxes poetic and employs some different features of Tracery to make some pleasantly coherent haikus.…
Inspired by show faves Janelle Shane and Max Woolf, Allison tests Google Cloud Vision to see what it thinks about…
Justin shares the newest function of his Twitter bot and also leads a very interesting discussion on the nature of…
This week, Allison rounds up a couple of her most recently discovered favorite Twitter Bots. Then, Justin Robot-ifies a game they’ve…
This week, Justin updates us on his Twitter Bot’s new project and talks about a new Botnik post that reminded…
Allison talks about a little taco robot she met in real life and an absurd karaoke generator made by a…
This week, Justin and Allison play around with a voice synthesizer and talk about the Twitter Bots Justin will be…
This week, Allison talks about an exciting collaboration – the hilarious predictive text sketch written by the Botnik Studios team…
This week, Justin talks about a Twitter bot that very much aligns with our interests and a new bot on…
We got an email! And not just any email – this week, a listener provided the Zesty Hat! We talk…
Allison and Justin have a brand new Twitter bot son and he’s so much better than the first. Follow @bottermore for…
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from us here at Robots on Typewriters! On this explicable Christmas Day upload, Allison brings…
This week, Justin stirs the drama pot again and calls out some questionably created Burger King ads that claim to…
Let’s return to Allison’s Twitter Bot Corner with an update on EmojiTetra, a jarring tweet from Magical Realism bot, and…
This week, Justin talks about one of the OG comedy Twitter bots, the Joking Computer! Then, things get a little…
This week, Allison talks about the nightmarish Frankensteinian creations you can make with Ganbreeder. Then, Justin hosts a brand new…
This week, Justin puts the Zesty Hat right on his own head and tells us a little bit about the…
This week, we are joined by the lovely, enlightening Janelle Shane of aiweirdness.com, known for her hilarious, endearing, and creative…
It’s the ProcJam 2018 round-up episode! Justin talks about three fun tools created for ProcJam and then Allison uses one…
This week, Allison and Justin are entirely on the same page seasonally! Allison talks about some fun, festive Halloween content…
This week, Justin talks about social robotics and Pepper’s visit to Parliament. Then, Spookytime has decidedly crept in as Allison…
This week, Allison’s Twitter Bot corner is thriving with our first ever submission from a botmaker! Then, Justin throws a…
Justin and Allison have created their very own, very first Twitter bot! OTPbot serves up the hottest OTPs in the…
The Songularity is upon us! Allison tells Justin about the new project from Botnik Studios – a pop album by…
This week, Justin dons a Zesty Hat he’s been looking for quite a while now – Headline Smasher! Then, Allison…
A new mini-segment is born this week – Allison’s Twitter Bot Corner! On top of that, her Zesty Hat is…
This week, Justin updates Allison on a cool event he got to attend in Dublin last week – ConverCon! Then,…
This week, Allison brings some fun graphic tools to the table – the Visual Chatbot and Text to Image! Then,…
This week, Justin returns to a Zesty Hat brought to us several weeks ago by a guest and updates us…
We have a very special guest this week – our good friend Mario is here to talk emojis and brackets!…
Allison brings a new blog for amusing RNN content to the table this week and reads some neural net generated…
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This week, Justin talks about his favorite piece of recent internet history and culture, Twitch Plays Pokemon! Then, Justin gets some…
For her Zesty Hat, Allison has three new Twitter bots, ranging from a zen aquarium to an interactive game. Then…
We have another guest! Our friend Anand tells us about a bot developed by OpenAI made to be the best…
It’s a round-up on ProcJam 2018! Justin talks about some of his favorite entries from the fantastic procedurally generated game…
Allison and Justin have a guest! Local robotic engineer Garrett Moore joins them to discuss a piece of recent viral…
Learn how to clean Legos with short hair as a teen! This week, Allison and Justin talk about some minor…
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Allison shares some amusing Twitter bots she found, including a John Mulaney Bot and a think piece bot. Then, Justin uses…
On this inaugural episode, Justin tells Allison about some brilliant new start-ups thought up by writers from Botnik.org. Then, Allison…