How Could You Forget: When AI Was Fun?

It might be shocking, but there was a time when people thought AI was a fun gimmick and not the only thing keeping the world economy afloat.   This episode was recommended/influenced by @possiblyadog on YouTube! If you've turned on any device with internet capabilities you probably know about AI, but do you remember when AI was new and fun and not depressing? Well today we're gonna talk about that just a little bit. Thank you everyone for your recommendations we read each and every one and Lexi keeps a list of all recommendations and maybe we'll get to your suggestion next fortnight! If you'd like to have your topic or suggestion possibly made into an episode comment on YouTube or tweet at grdn on Twitter or Bluesky and we'll take a look at your suggestions! Stick around to about the middle of the episode for the latest game of "Is it Jaden Smith or is it AI?" and play along at home. ALSO! If you are interested, these episodes and all future episodes are on audio formats (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.) so be sure to give us 5 stars wherever you listen to this podcast because it really helps us out. Here's to many more episodes this year and fun times had for all. And until next time, let's blow this popsicle stand.   Thank you to our lovely amazingly supportive patrons for both Camp and grdn. If you want to hear us read almost 10 chapters of My Immortal you can still hear that over on either of our patreon pages! Intro and outro music created by the lovely and talented @Campfireharvest on YouTube Cute character icons created by creating.cha0s on Instagram. Sources: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20865-software-tricks-people-into-thinking-it-is-human/ https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-genocidal-tweets-from-ai-chatbot-tay-2016-3 https://kotaku.com/ai-seinfeld-twitch-nothing-forever-mismatch-media-dead-1850208542