Ok Smart Ass
Ok Smart Ass
Patrick Bonello & Tor Roxburgh
OK Smart-ass is a regular look at technology, how we see, use it and the impact it has on our everyday lives.
#048 - Bing AI has a brain fart, convert 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. Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com
Feb 26, 2023
53 min
#047 - 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. Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com    
Feb 12, 2023
44 min
#046 – 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. Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com  
Jan 29, 2023
42 min
#045 – 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. Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com
Jan 13, 2023
41 min
#044 – 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. Feed your curiosity at https://oksmartass.com
Jan 1, 2023
46 min
#043 - 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.  Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com
Dec 18, 2022
42 min
#042 - Are squirrels better equipped to go to Mars or perhaps just a frozen head?
Patrick's dream of travelling into space may be trumped by a hibernating squirrel.  Tor finds out the difference between kangaroo poo and meteorite fragments - and it's not the taste. Smart glasses are helping people with low vision see the world better. At the same time AI is now bringing us poetry which Patrick likes and Tor hates. And Charles Darwin may have solved your Xmas reading list problems.   Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com
Dec 4, 2022
40 min
#041 - Thrusting moon rockets, virtual holidays inside a robot and mind reading AI
Patrick wants to hitchkike onboard the biggest rocket in history with his sites set on the moon. Tor is aiming for Mars or maybe Uranus for a fecal transplant. Most of us are guilty of phubbing so Patrick has the perfect cure, Tor on the other hand has a cure for baldness and the formula for same sex couples to have babies. Your next overseas holiday might be a virtual one, inside a robot but maybe not a chinese drone. Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com
Nov 20, 2022
40 min
#040 - Robots that fold your laundry, steerable needles and speaking to the dead
In this episode we meet the world's fastest laundry folding robot. We ask how private is your incognito browser - you might be surprised that it's not very. How paranoid are you about your smart speakers? Patrick's friends made him take Google out of his spare room when they visited. The evolution of VR could give you super sensitive touch, hot and cold and even smell. Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com
Nov 6, 2022
45 min
#039 – Magic boots, robotic bees, and rollercoaster phone trouble
In this episode, we discover “dishbrain” is not a domestic malaise. It is a brilliant piece of science. Israeli robotic bees might hold the answer to the world’s pollination problems And we put our music taste to the test when we delve into the best music for work and play. Feed your curiosity at oksmartass.com
Oct 22, 2022
44 min
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