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Showcase features hour-long documentaries on a wide range of topics from some of the most respected producers in public radio.
Each program gives listeners a chance to dig in to issues that are important to everyone, and to hear from people with powerful, deeply affecting stories.
Coming up this week:
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May 5-6 |
Radiolab: Talking to Machines |
| This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert meet humans and robots who are trying to connect, and blur the line. We begin with a love story--from a man who unwittingly fell in love with a chatbot on an online dating site. Then, we encounter a robot therapist whose inventor became so unnerved by its success that he pulled the plug. And we talk to the man who coded Cleverbot, a software program that learns from every new line of conversation it receives...and that's chatting with more than 3 million humans each month. Then, five intrepid kids help us test a hypothesis about a toy designed to push our buttons, and play on our human empathy. And we meet a robot built to be so sentient that its creators hope it will one day have a consciousness, and a life, all its own. |
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Last week's show:
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Apr 28-29 |
Intelligence Squared: The World Would Be Better Off Without Religion |
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