Jamison and Blake talk about their world travels as well as getting as far away from each other as possible. They finally decide on their podcast name and then the sentient internet decides to give us technical difficulties before we jump into our discussion of Jamison's film pick from 2013 entitled Computer Chess by Andrew Bujalski. The film takes the conversation into far flung worlds of sentient chatbots, elephants, humans acting like robots, robots acting like humans, and, of course, breaking a seven-year-old's finger. Then Blake unleashes his next film pick and starts the podcast down a trajectory of which Jamison finds unfortunate.
References:
"Do Elephants Have Souls?" - The New Atlantis
"Google AI researcher explains why the technology may be 'sentient'" - NPR
"No Minds Without Other Minds" - Justin E. H. Smith's Hinternet
"Chess Robot Goes Rogue, Breaks Seven-Year-Old Player's Finger - Newsweek
"Google fires engineer Blake Lemoine who contended its AI technology was sentient" - CNN
