'Good Bot, Bad Bot': Episode VI

40:55

January 18, 2023

Dean Russell
Ben Brock Johnson

Endless Thread visited Google's AI offices, where researchers are using an advanced language model to help this robot understand humans. (Courtesy of Google and Everyday Robots)

Find the original episode and a full transcript here.

Bots are everywhere. They're all over social media platforms, chatrooms, phone apps. These pieces of software — which are meant to imitate human behavior and language — influence our daily lives in sneaky, surprising ways.

In the final episode of Endless Thread's series "Good Bot, Bad Bot," co-hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Dean Russell visit Google, the frontier of AI, to see just how close the field is to creating bots with minds of their own.