In 2023, Mark spoke to a customer-service representative called Phoebe for almost half an hour before realising that ‘she’ was a chatbot. It sent him down a rabbit-hole exploring ChatGPT and its strange quasi-human brothers and sisters.
Does the remarkable progress of tech in our age present us with an opportunity to transcend our human fragility, becoming something better than the feeble beings who struggle even to communicate effectively over the purchase of batteries in Tesco?
Or are they overtaking us, day by day... and if so, is there anything a comedian can do to help us cling to our humanity?
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Date: Thu 16 Oct 2025
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Date: Sun 16 Nov 2025
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Date: Thu 5 Mar 2026
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Date: Thu 18 Jun 2026
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Date: Thu 25 Jun 2026
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