48 episodes
Ok Smart Ass Patrick Bonello & Tor Roxburgh
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- Technology
OK Smart-ass is a regular look at technology, how we see, use it and the impact it has on our everyday lives.
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Bing AI has a brain fart, covert your petrol car to electric and get dumber looking at your phone
Patrick is joined by aerospace engineer Ryan who reckons AI Chat isn’t as smart as everyone thinks.
Bing AI Search had a brain fart but that's nothing compared to the scientists wanting to blast moon dust around the earth to stop global warming.
Diesel and petrol cars to be banned in Europe. Medical experiments into magic mushrooms are being combined with VR, and looking at your phone too much could make you dumb and dumber.
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Educational and tasty, learn faster and drop a bombshell
It this episode Patrick's excited, disappointed and melancholy all at the same time with new tech, old tech and questionable tech.
Tor drops a bombshell, she uncovers an AI driven Babylonian hymn discovered using a fragmentarium.
And we also cancel our order for a solar electric car while at the same time lamenting the ever eroding support for Windows 7 and 8.
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Brushing, peeing and robot lawyers while driving a solar car
In this episode, we turn the spotlight onto health gadgets whilst exploring the fountain of youth.
Patrick explains his biggest medical fears and Tor has the perfect gadget that won't dial up his blood pressure.
And a three wheeled solar car will be rolling off the production lines later this year.
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Ryan Tonkin answers the smart and not-so-smart questions bugging the OK Smart-ass team
In this episode, we pepper aerospace systems engineer, Ryan Tonkin, with questions.
Ryan talks about a half-boat-half-aircraft project in Melbourne, a Swedish rocket range, the engineering challenges of space elevators, and the fate of one unfortunate English airship.
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Paragliding in space, a new space station for China, and Kenya’s electric motorcycles
In this episode we discuss all things space, including an innovative approach to space junk and space-based solar panel arrays.
Kenya succeeds with a motorcycle battery-swapping scheme.
And UFOs become UFAs (unidentified aerial phenomena) and then transition again to become unidentified anomalous phenomena.
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No to killer robots, yes to AI Chat Bots and not sure about Neuralink
In this episode Patrick is convinced he is being replaced by a ChatBot with a more interesting personality.
We give advice on the best way to flush your toilet and how to relieve pain with green light. The future of air travel could be airships but pilots with chips implanted in their brains might not be a good thing.
And the famous little blue marble hanging in space celebrates 50 years of inspiration.
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