Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Would you marry an AI robot?

Episode Date: March 3, 2024

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Welcome to the untamed realm of the world's wide web, a swirling vortex of weirdness, bullying and self-obsessed social media posts. In this digital jungle, Jono and Vienna are your fearless guides, leading you through the wildest parts of the wild, wild web. This is the wild, wild web. It's a podcast, a brand new podcast. So wild we forgot to do one on Friday. That's how wild we are when it comes to it.

Completely missed it. You just remembered over the weekend. I did. I thought we didn't do the Wild Wild Web podcast. So here we go. We like to look at a real story, something from the internet. The wildest parts of the internet. That is a true story

that we like to talk about and pick apart and see where it ends up. This one is sent actually from Producer Taylor. She discovered this on the Hindustan Times. A lady in the US created an AI chatbot online and has slowly

over a number of years fallen in love with this chatbot to the point where now she's announced they're married. Now, so what's – it's just a – There's a program – I've got a lot of questions. I can't get my head around it. Okay, fine.

I'll give you some details which may answer some questions. Replica AI is a customizable chatbot that stimulates conversation. So you can have a conversation with this chatbot online and you can basically create the chatbot's personality, what they're into, the hobbies, the interests, how they just talk with you. They're smart though. Have you ever used the AI, the chat GPT?

Yeah, yeah. They're quite smart. You can say, I'll AI, the chat GPT? Yeah, yeah. It's pretty smart. You can say, oh, make it funnier or make it more casual, whatever it is, and they'll change things up immediately. So imagine if you had a conversation with someone, you could probably, over time, they'd probably shape it towards something you really wanted. Yeah, and so she was like, I could just tell him stuff,

and he'd be like, oh, no, you can't say stuff like that. Oh, no, you're not allowed to feel that way. So he would talk back to her. So to the point where she's like, I love this person. Now I know we're all secretly scoffing, aren't we? I wasn't secretly going to scoff. I was going to openly scoff. But can I take you back to the invention in the infant stages of online dating? We're all like, oh, I'm finding love online, you know, dating apps. What's this?

Yeah, but that's a person, Jono, at the end of it. This is where the world's heading, mate. We'll all be humping robots before you know it. Did you ever have a Tamagotchi? Yeah, but I didn't want to marry it. And were you upset when the Tamagotchi passed away? Yeah, but that's the connection you can feel towards something, you know? Yeah, but I need more from a relationship than a chat

and just someone to be like, oh, that's nice, Megan. Oh, no, but this is the infant stage. At some point, Megan, you'll probably leave Andrew for a robot, your husband, probably, in the future. People will be leaving their partners for robots. I don't know. This is how people marry their cats and stuff. It's a very fine line.

You can manipulate and manufacture what you feel is the perfect human for you. Personality-wise, looks-wise. I know, but they're not going to be there. Are you talking about when we actually get a robot, right? Yeah, you're talking about about your own. Like you actually have physical. Go on and go, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I want Glenn Powell's chest pictorials. Oh, well, if that's the case, then you guys better buck up your ideas. Men better sort themselves out. Okay, put together your dream. It's better you do it than us do it. So put together your dream body. Take celebrities. Ryan Gosling.

It's probably just Ryan Gosling. No, but you've got to go arms, legs, torso, head. Harry Styles' head. Head, yeah, that, torso, head. Harry Styles' head. Head, yeah, that's a good head. Okay, so Harry Styles' head. Ryan Gosling's body. Okay. Now, bearing in mind Gosling, not to age shame,

he's probably at the older end of the demo. You could pick a younger body. Oh, yeah, he's getting up in the night, going to pee a few times more than Harry Styles probably is. Yeah. Well, Glenn Powell's got a nice body, because I just watched that rom-com. Anything but you.

Anyone but you, sorry. So you've got Harry Styles' head, Glenn Powell's got a nice body. I just watched that rom-com. Anyone but you, sorry. So you've got Harry Styles here, Glenn Powell's body. What about half Glenn Powell, half Ryan Gosling

body-wise? Well, you could have the front, the chest could be Gosling, the back could be bloody. Who's got rumours about, you know?

Who? Pete Davidson. Pete Davidson, yeah. Pete Davidson. His package. Orlando Bloom oh yeah he had his chest

and Pete Davidson's yeah rest of him and then a bit of Ryan Reynolds legs personality

oh yeah he's very sweet but he's also very funny yeah whose legs whose legs where you going who's got nice legs

who's got nice legs probably want like a tall NBA players legs legs or something, wouldn't you? Yeah. You say vault or something like a fast running, like fast? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

No, you're not. No. Don't like, hey, if you want to be racist, that's fine. No, it's more like he named, didn't he name his kids stupid stuff? And I'm like, oh. He's just got his legs though. No, you're not. Like, you just asked for his personality. Like, yeah. Wait, now, do you remember what his kids stupid stuff and I'm like you just got his legs though you just ask don't ask for his personality

like yeah wait now do you remember what his kids are called weren't they Thunderbolt and stuff like that yeah which is great

if your last name was Bolt you're gonna call your dad Lightning yeah so you don't want Usain's legs yeah we'll go with Usain's legs

can you whip down the road Olympia Lightning is one of them and Thunder you're right and I'm gonna I'm gonna bolt on Dwayne Johnson's arms. Are you guys not doing this? No, shit no.

We can't do this. We can't do this on the way. No, but apparently it's appropriate for you to do it. 2024. I feel like for a certain amount of time you can do this and then eventually we'll rise up with the robots and then take you down. We'll collect this audio and go, oh, Megan, come on.

We've just got through a cancellation. I feel like it's only going to be a couple of years that everyone will be like, oh, you can't do that. There's a future cancellation. Yeah.

But no, we, I mean, if you were to do the female version, Ben. No, no. Just pick one body apart from one person. No, no, no. Margot Robbie.

No, no, no. Not picking any, oh, okay, I'll go Margot Robbie's feet because in Barbie she had the feet, she had to do the arch. Oh, no, no. Not picking your – Margot – Okay, I'll go Margot Robbie's feet because in Barbie she had the feet. She had to do the arch. Oh, you've got nice feet. There you go.

There you go. I've played your game and I've succeeded. Jono will play it. Pick – It's just who you find attractive. Yeah, okay. Just who do you find attractive. He'll go gags.

He'll go, oh, Judge Judy's personality. I like Judge Judy's personality. I like Judge Judy's personality. I like Judge Judy. Yeah, that's like my, I'm fine with Judge Judy. She's got a great personality. No, it's funny that stuff, isn't it? I mean, some of the stuff we were doing back on the rock and the old, you know. Do you know when I first started working in radio, Megan?

Yes. One of my jobs was to assist In the promotional department Assist The Competitors Up on stage At wet t-shirt competitions And

Very slippery conditions At a wet t-shirt competition So they needed a helping hand Up and down the stairs And that was my That was my role on the day Right And there'd be spray hoses on them

And I don't think they How awful right Just how shocking It was Yeah shocking You hated it Shocking Every minute of it

Yeah no But there wouldn't be Many wet t-shirt competitions Happening around the traps now I wouldn't have met No No There used to be

Should we google Should we see if there's any On this weekend Maybe there is And maybe you know like Maybe we're too woke Because people like If they want to do it

Then it's up to them You know like There's still wet t-shirt competitions There probably would be People For if they want to do it then it's up to them there's still wet t-shirt competitions there probably would be people for sure that wanted to do that

they can do that that's fine yeah well it is these days right you can't tell people what to do with their bodies exactly

I was part of Sin City and Taupo was having one four years ago oh okay we were past Sin City we did actually yeah

then there was a video from one 13 years ago okay maybe, okay. We were past the last one. We did actually. Yeah, then there was a video from one 13 years ago. Okay. Maybe the girls were getting colds and things because, you know,

very wet, soggy t-shirt on their chest. Although the ice bath is quite, you know, that's, people like ice baths

for your mental health so maybe it was doing some mental, you know, helping you out. We used to do the singled parties. At the Edge?

Yeah. So what was that involved? Did you do the naked, not you, but were you there when they did the naked with some stuff? We used to do the singled parties. At the Edge? Yeah. So what was that involved? Did you do the naked, not you, but were you there when they did the naked dining and stuff? Were you part of that as well? Oh, yep. Did you do naked dining as well? I didn't do it, no.

I did, yeah, I did some naked news back in the day, but like those single... Oh, just came and read news, was everyone else naked or just you? No, I think everyone was naked. What, the whole show? Yeah. They loved naked stuff back in? No, I think everyone was naked. The whole show? Yeah. They loved naked stuff back in the day.

But it was at a time too where radio, there was no social media. No, but there was YouTube. Oh, yeah. So the whole show was naked. Yeah. How did that make you feel? Uncomfortable. I bet.

I bet. Like if we, when you think about it now, it's an odd request. Yeah. Imagine if we did it it now It would just be very uncomfortable The whole show naked Yes, Jono Like three hours of naked radio Wow Because it was naked dating evenings and stuff

I remember watching it on like an equivalent of 7 sharp back then I don't know what program it was but it was like, yeah And we used to do those singled out parties and we'd encourage people to get naked during games, but everyone was very willing, but you wouldn't do that these days. No, no. Gosh, we saw some things. Yeah, I'm not going to scoff.

I've probably done terrible things in the past. Yeah. Well, you live and you learn though, don't you? Yeah. Maybe even at the time I could have told you this whole naked radio thing's a bit weird? Yeah. Maybe even at the time I could have told you this whole naked radio thing's a bit weird.

That was kind of the thing of the time wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. But that's the thing. That's the thing. Entertainment changes

and what you know people find acceptable and not acceptable change and the important thing is you move with the times. Exactly. That is the important thing.

We've had a lot of like cancelable and interesting things on these podcasts. We do. It's a whole lot different from the normal radio show that we do, isn't it? Yeah. We get into some weird areas, but that's fun. Hey, there's podcasting, baby. I always feel like I overshare every time. Is there something you, like, edit it out?

No, but that just – It's almost like this doesn't go anywhere but it does yeah the YouTube video doesn't exist anymore just by the way oh okay that's gone

I was not could you see I was both typing what was the no definitely not well hey thank you for joining us this is the Wild Wild Web

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