Shell Game

By Evan Ratliff

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Subscribers: 311
Reviews: 9
Episodes: 7

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 Sep 21, 2024
Fascinating and addictive. One of the best independent podcasts.

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 Sep 13, 2024

Description

A podcast (and newsletter) about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff. In Season One, that thing was Evan’s voice. By creating a voice clone and hooking it up to an AI chatbot, Evan set out to discover what happens when you try to take control of the very technology that threatens to replace you. Shell Game was named one of the the best podcasts of 2024 by Apple, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Vulture, The Information, and The Economist. It's "riveting," says The New Yorker, "awesome" says The Verge, and "slightly terrifying," says The Globe and Mail. Over the course of six episodes, Evan’s voice agents talked to spammers and scammers, to Evan’s friends and family, to colleagues and sources, to other AIs, and even to a therapist—all to better understand what AI voice is able to do, what it can't yet do, and what to expect from a future in which more and more of the people we encounter in the world aren’t real. www.shellgame.co

Episode Date
Episode 6: The Future Isn't Real
Aug 13, 2024
Episode 5: My Digital Twin
Aug 06, 2024
Episode 4: Take a Deep Breath
Jul 30, 2024
Episode 3: Conversations With Myself
Jul 23, 2024
Episode 2: Me and My Scammer
Jul 16, 2024
Episode 1: Quality Assurance
Jul 09, 2024
Introducing Shell Game, a Strange and Immersive AI Experiment
Jul 02, 2024