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Celine Dion terrorizes a New Zealand city as officials in Guangzhou wipe the Halloween smile from riders’ faces and Meta’s chatbots sow confusion and apathy. Plus, VR helps with the horrors of hoarding. 

Hosted by Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury

Produced by Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

Further Reading: 

https://futurism.com/neoscope/vr-hoarders-practice-throwing-garbage

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/24/porirua-siren-kings-new-zealand-city-speaker-battles

https://www.iflscience.com/archax-japan-engineers-make-transformer-robot-that-actually-works-71235

https://futurism.com/facebook-jane-austen-spam

https://futurism.com/meta-ai-tom-brady-colin-kaepernick

https://futurism.com/the-byte/bomb-threat-explosives-delivery-robots

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/dmv-immediately-suspends-cruises-robotaxi-permit-in-california/?guccounter=1

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2398656-gpt-4-gave-advice-on-planning-terrorist-attacks-when-asked-in-zulu/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2399370-chatgpt-wrote-code-that-can-make-databases-leak-sensitive-information/

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