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Options March 21, 2018: The World's First AI Radio Program

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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:10pm Irwin:

Sorry for the belated playlist activation. Have at it!
Avatar 6:11pm Linda Lee:

dada from the start! :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:11pm bore:

i missed the intro...a little help?
Avatar ♥ 6:11pm herb.nyc:

Can this AI program beat Big Blue? If not, I'm sure it can make BB laugh. And maybe get snot to come out of its nose.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:11pm dale:

can't spell dada without a, d, d.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:11pm bore:

help!
  6:12pm Listener Robert:

I'm ringing, just in case they need phoners. So far, this is by far the TIGHTEST 7SD ever -- unrealistically tight, but better than with gaps.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:12pm dale:

not sure i can sit this one out.
Avatar 6:12pm Linda Lee:

@bore ~ AI experiment: 700 7SD programs thrown into a digital box, shaken & dumped out in bits with an entered 'seed word'.
  Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:13pm Walt:

bore: Andy's son ran 700 hours of old SSD shows through a Google Artificial Intelligence program. It extracts clips from the conversations and creates an almost-but-not-quite realistic show.
  6:13pm brian in new Orleans:

great idea for a show...reminds me of the South Park episode where the writers had to stitch together dialogue from the character "Chef". Isaac Hayes quit with no notice after the show ripped his religion. they wrote chef out of the series using snippets all tied together to create a narrative for Chefs final episode....genius!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:13pm queems:

it sounds about the same as usual
Avatar ♥ 6:13pm elkeno:

AI... "Intelligence" is a funny word
  Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:13pm Walt:

Jinx!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:14pm Greg from ZONE 5:

This is bonkers in the best possible way…
Avatar 6:14pm Linda Lee:

@queems.. but no gum or breathing.
Avatar 6:14pm kimzilla:

Good point Linda Lee, all the gum chewing have all been masterly edited out!
  6:14pm Brian in New Orleans:

...show using dialogue from previous episodes over the years....
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:15pm queems:

@linda i listened to this show a couple times in my new headphones on the bus and WOW so much breathing. it was like i was in the same room
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:15pm dale:

linda lee - words "thrown into a digital box, shaken & dumped out in bits" describes my only acid experience.
  6:15pm Mandy:

these two AI sound like the last things talking to each other at the end of the world.
Avatar 6:16pm Linda Lee:

@dale ~ wow. no wonder it was your only. :-)
  6:16pm Mandy:

this proves do we even need Andy?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:17pm queems:

those cranes are still there btw
  6:17pm JTM:

Why is everything about pools?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:17pm Ken From Hyde Park:

I'm sure Nick The Bard appreciates the phone number being read out. Random people will call and expect to get put on the air.
  6:18pm Listener Robert:

By the description given in advance, I'd thought it was going to use speech recognition to get cues from us calling in live.

They've done "automated" Ken, Andy, and both together., but they were really only semi-auto. They've done a few "puppet master" too, which wasn't auto at all. But this is FULL AUTO! And it's TOO good, none of the pauses one would hear in realistic interaction.

This is the sort of thing I mean when I describe 7SD as "experimental comedy".
Avatar 6:18pm Linda Lee:

i see 700 Kens & 700 Andys in a small room, talking to themselves like parrots. some are older, some are younger, none have gum.
  6:18pm FletcherNYC:

I’m freaking out out
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:18pm dale:

that and i was on the tenth floor of my old office on the fire escape and was sure i could fly. glad i didn't.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:19pm dale:

i'm starting to go with the rhythm.
Avatar 6:19pm Linda Lee:

gosh dale, you were almost an urban legend!
  Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:19pm Walt:

@JTM: Ken fed the program "seed words" to get it started, the first phrase was "swimming pool."
Avatar 6:20pm Linda Lee:

now the word is masturbatorium.
Avatar 6:20pm geo in jc:

musical ken & andy = kandy
  6:20pm FletcherNYC:

The worst music imaginable
  6:20pm Jim CJ:

Will that address really work? The Masturbatirium, Madison, NJ?
  Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:21pm Walt:

@Linda Lee: I wonder what a crossword clue for that word might be.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:21pm dale:

it was a design studio and the two girls i was with broke into the art supplies and dumped dyes all over the counters while i was huddled under a desk. next morning was a LOT of cleaning.
Avatar 6:21pm Linda Lee:

wow. sounds pretty terrible!
Avatar 6:22pm geo in jc:

kendy?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:22pm dale:

memorable to say the least.
  6:22pm FletcherNYC:

Squatting in bushes
Avatar 6:22pm Linda Lee:

@Walt: "the word most used on WFMU's 'Seven Second Delay' program."
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:23pm tomasz.:

this is a lot
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:23pm Ken From Hyde Park:

I hope it blurt out Andy's cuss word from the waterboarding episode!
  6:23pm Listener Robert:

Would've been hilarious (but sad for legal purposes) had someone accidentally fed the unexpurgated version of Andy's waterboarding into the database and had it come up! "Honest, it wasn't us, it was a machine!"
  Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:23pm Walt:

@Linda Lee: Well played
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:24pm Ken From Hyde Park:

*doesn't*
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:24pm Asheville Jon:

wow, i am so unhappy that i did not buy bad show insurance. this sucks!
Avatar 6:25pm Linda Lee:

really miss the gum.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:25pm Dave in Vermont:

is this going to be the whole hour- i am guessing someone already asked
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:25pm mocherz:

need's some "ken's last ever" tracks...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:26pm dale:

dave - you're almost half way through - let the failure wash over you.
  6:27pm Mandy:

it's like I'm in the Andy & Ken portrait gallery in Harry Potter World
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:27pm Dave in Vermont:

But, I've got Mary Wing right next door.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:28pm dale:

pine bush is supposed to have a lot of ufo sightings. and bars.
Avatar 6:29pm Linda Lee:

ah! one strange voice i couldn't recognize was young Andy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:30pm Asheville Jon:

this is shit. off to the drummer stream.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:30pm Ken From Hyde Park:

This is like conversing with someone with a very short attention span.
Avatar 6:30pm Linda Lee:

just like the real Andy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:31pm Asheville Jon:

if i want to hear psychotic inane babbling with no real structure i'll call my ex wife.
Avatar 6:31pm kimzilla:

@Ken, so true, it's like any conversation in the lunch room at WFMU!
  6:31pm Wilson:

From the other room, there'd no discernible difference
Avatar 6:32pm Fredericks:

Oreo Speedwagon!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm queems:

are people going to file claims on this or does the interesting concept keep it from being a legitimate bad show
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm Asheville Jon:

THIS IS A BAD SHOW. queems, file now!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm chris:

i was going to submit a claim, but i've laughed, so i guess i can't now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm Ken From Hyde Park:

The fun part is identifying the episodes the voice clips came from.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm bore:

i hope they researched the "ia stop button problem" before staring this experiment...if not this might never end
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm queems:

@jon i didn't pay for insurance so i can't file!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm Asheville Jon:

drummer stream is excellent right now
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm Asheville Jon:

me too queems, i mentioned that earlier. :(
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm dale:

there's a fairport movie? i need to investigate...
Avatar 6:34pm Linda Lee:

not even poetry. so much for creative AI!
Avatar 6:34pm Fredericks:

Failing the Turing test.
Avatar 6:35pm geo in jc:

@queems yes this is definitely a claim exempt show
  6:35pm Wilson:

BEST
Avatar 6:35pm Linda Lee:

Fredericks ~ doesn't that depend on the standard of human interaction?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:35pm queems:

i respect the concept
  6:35pm Wilson:

SHOW
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:35pm bore:

the ai may have locked everyone out of the control room...someone should try calling just to be safe
  6:36pm Wilson:

EVER
Avatar 6:36pm Linda Lee:

some of the zingers make me laugh. show is exempt.
  6:36pm Mandy:

$10 says theyve gone for a smoke
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:36pm Asheville Jon:

i respect the concept of a boston creme donut.
Avatar 6:37pm Linda Lee:

who is this Mr. Meaner they speak of?
Avatar 6:37pm Linda Lee:

@Mandy ~ neither man is in Jersey City at this time.
  6:38pm John in Jersey:

They did a primitive version of this back in the 90's, with only a few sound bytes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:38pm Asheville Jon:

they're shopping for new home improvements with all the money they made from the marathon
Avatar 6:39pm geo in jc:

@Linda Lee Mr. Meaner I like that
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:39pm bore:

from wikipedia:

Just as humans can be killed or otherwise disabled, computers can be turned off. One challenge is that, if being turned off prevents it from achieving its current goals, a superintelligence would likely try to prevent its being turned off. Just as humans have systems in place to deter or protect themselves from assailants, such a superintelligence would have a motivation to engage in "strategic planning" to prevent itself being turned off. This could involve:
- Hacking other systems to install and run backup copies of itself, or creating other allied superintelligent agents without kill switches.
- Pre-emptively disabling anyone who might want to turn the computer off.
- Using some kind of clever ruse, or superhuman persuasion skills, to talk its programmers out of wanting to shut it down.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:40pm queems:

i will say that ken's fill in show today was one of the best i have ever heard
Avatar 6:40pm Linda Lee:

this is something a young kid would love!
  6:40pm Jay Goges:

This is incredible right now
  6:41pm Listener Robert:

I love that homophones like serious and Sirius get connected. That's called klang association (or maybe clang) in psychiatry.
Avatar 6:42pm Linda Lee:

here comes the grateful dead ~
  6:42pm Listener Robert:

Similarly "stand up" and "standup".
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:42pm Ken From Hyde Park:

"The phone lines are now open." "Except for Dave in Manhattan." Best-matched pair of quotes yet.
  6:42pm Mandy:

I switched to the drummer stream but I'm enjoying the comments here
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:43pm Asheville Jon:

fuggit, i'm going to get some donuts.
  6:43pm Finbar Saunders:

This is painful.
Why am I still listening?
Avatar 6:43pm Fredericks:

Maybe if the segments were longer the coherence would increase.
Avatar 6:44pm geo in jc:

I gonna play this on loop to keep burglars away
Avatar 6:44pm Linda Lee:

you'll keep *everyone* away George! :-D
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:44pm ultradamno:

The only way out is through
  6:44pm FletcherNYC:

Maybe I’m insane, but I am enjoying this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:45pm bore:

if this continues past 7 we'll know the singularity has been achieved
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:46pm dale:

wish kenny g. would come back.
Avatar 6:46pm Linda Lee:

ok i get it. pretend it's a conversation. :-D
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:46pm Ken From Hyde Park:

My brain is starting to rewire itself! I can feel it.
  6:47pm exile-on-hicks-st:

“A Brief History of Time” docu. Philip Glass sndtrk - anyone know if that was ever released?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:47pm bore:

@ken, the ai may be replicating itself into your brain
  6:47pm Jay Goges:

I’m imagining someone tuning into this by chance right now, and I’m laughing uncontrollably... this makes no god damn sense and I love it
  6:48pm Emily:

@ Ken from HP—me too!
Avatar ♥ 6:48pm elkeno:

if Josh put a second or two between snippets, i think this could really take off!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:48pm queems:

@jay i think about that all the time with this station
Avatar 6:48pm Fredericks:

L.L. I was thinking about how much of it was convincing conversation. The goal is 60% as I recall.
Avatar 6:49pm Linda Lee:

ah. that's a fail.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:49pm tomasz.:

this show is brilliant you philistines
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:51pm Ken From Hyde Park:

I wonder if they fed it the Drunk Ken episode.
  6:51pm Emily:

I imagine if someone tuned into this by accident they would just think they were losing it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:51pm cklequ:

I can't tell if i hate this or love it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:51pm dale:

if people left NPR for this there is hope yet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:54pm queems:

i think i am just realizing how much this show needs phone calls to make it bearable
  6:55pm Listener Robert:

Josh needs to program in speech recognition so the bot can solicit and take phone calls.
  6:55pm The Little Prince:

I can't wait for another AI episode!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:57pm ultradamno:

So "Felder" was never a seed word?
  6:58pm The Little Prince:

It's historic! Congratulations WFMU for the weirdest radio show I've ever heard.
Avatar 6:58pm geo in jc:

Bravo, Josh! Great show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:59pm queems:

yes, this was very cool
  6:59pm cl@m digger:

Black mirror: wfmu
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:59pm Ken From Hyde Park:

If it added a few 2-second pauses occasionally, it'd be a little less exhausting for this mere mortal to follow. Enjoyed it, nonetheless. Thanks, Josh!
Avatar 6:59pm J J F:

Call Cambridge analytics..
  7:01pm Listener Robert:

It was great, but remember that besides Josh's know-how, it was years of good 7SD that made this episode possible.
Avatar 3:38pm nfrae:

this is good
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