Celine Dion terrorizes a New Zealand city as officials in Guangzhou wipe the Halloween smile from riders’ faces and Meta’s chatbots sow confusion and apathy. Plus, VR helps with the horrors of hoarding.
Hosted by Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury
Produced by Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9
Further Reading:
https://futurism.com/neoscope/vr-hoarders-practice-throwing-garbage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/24/porirua-siren-kings-new-zealand-city-speaker-battles
https://www.iflscience.com/archax-japan-engineers-make-transformer-robot-that-actually-works-71235
https://futurism.com/facebook-jane-austen-spam
https://futurism.com/meta-ai-tom-brady-colin-kaepernick
https://futurism.com/the-byte/bomb-threat-explosives-delivery-robots
https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/dmv-immediately-suspends-cruises-robotaxi-permit-in-california/?guccounter=1
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2398656-gpt-4-gave-advice-on-planning-terrorist-attacks-when-asked-in-zulu/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2399370-chatgpt-wrote-code-that-can-make-databases-leak-sensitive-information/
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