Oct 7, 2026 · 24 min · 10 segments
While the rest of us have been dreaming of the promise of AI to cure diseases, and fretting about the threat of robots overtaking humanity, a growing number of people have started literally…
Peter HartcherGuest
Samantha Selinger-MorrisHost
Spike Jonze has said he was inspired to write that movie by the fact that then, in 2013, you could-- There was a website where you could write questions to an AI bot that would send you answers.
And he said he thought that was really interesting and fun and cool, but only for about the first 20 or 30 seconds, because after that, the responses sort of bogged down and it was not very fun anymore.
Spike Jonze has said he was inspired to write that movie by the fact that then, in 2013, you could-- There was a website where you could write questions to an AI bot that would send you answers.
And he said he thought that was really interesting and fun and cool, but only for about the first 20 or 30 seconds, because after that, the responses sort of bogged down and it was not very fun anymore.
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