Robots may be the future, but this week the Queens examine some of the things they’re not so good at – from crafting jokes to the nuance of translating languages.
Tegan also gets behind the wheel of the MINI Countryman Hybrid and Rad tests out the new EPOS wireless earbuds.
This episode was sponsored by Shure and Jands.
Show Notes
- You can learn more about the MINI Countryman Hybrid here
- And you can find out more about the GPOS GTW 270 Hybrid earbuds here
- Apple-picking robot targets labour-hungry fruit sector in Australia
- More on AI trying to tell jokes and failing spectacularly
- Tay, Microsoft’s AI chat bot gets radicalised
- Here’s some first-hand experience with Sophia
- Also Will Smith tried to romance Sophia once
- And you can find our more about the Joey Chaos robot here
- That time the Australian government used Google Translates for COVIDSafe messaging
- And that time a Palestinian man was arrested after Facebook auto-translated ‘good morning’ to ‘attack them’
- And here’s some pics of the MINI Countryman, including the cool retro switches and charging tariff option:
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