Shell Game
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Subscribers: 346
Reviews: 9
Episodes: 8
A Podcast Republic user
Feb 21, 2025
Jan 2, 2025
M
Dec 23, 2024
Nicole
Sep 21, 2024
Fascinating and addictive. One of the best independent podcasts.
klkonrath@gmail.com
Sep 13, 2024
JT
Sep 10, 2024
A tantalizing look at the state of the art with interactive AI bots. I feel like the joke's on me, though: I'm not sure why the presenter didn't reveal that it was his voice clone reading a script and not a human presenter.
Derek
Sep 9, 2024
Incredible show! Gripping story telling and crazy premise
Rebecca
Aug 18, 2024
An interesting and thought provoking look at various aspects of AI and how it's already incorporated in our lives and where the technology may be going. The host Evan conducts fascinating real world experiments using his AI agent.
jeff
Jul 9, 2024
a fascinating concept, really curious to hear where future episodes go!
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 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
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Season 2 Is Coming!
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Episode 6: The Future Isn't Real
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Episode 5: My Digital Twin
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Episode 4: Take a Deep Breath
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Episode 3: Conversations With Myself
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2: Me and My Scammer
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Episode 1: Quality Assurance
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Introducing Shell Game, a Strange and Immersive AI Experiment
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Jul 02, 2024 |