Issue 32 Episode 03 – Pyotr - Making Bots Laugh is the Hardest Thing

Regretfully,

I apologize in advance. We all spend too much time looking at screens, and yet here you are looking at a screen to read this. We need more human contact than we get, and yet here I am premiering a podcast episode that has only bots in it.

Sorry.

Well, not sorry, actually. Not entirely sorry. It was a challenge, in Episode 01 and 02, to work with bots and humans together in the same audio drama. It was much more challenging, in Episode 03, to work with an all-bot cast. Bots always say their lines the same way. Of course, they are always on time. But they rush things when they read them, they mispronounce words that they haven’t been trained to say, and have a horrible sound that they call a laugh. Getting bots to laugh at each other’s jokes was the hardest part of Episode 03.