261: The Ben Turing Test

About this episode

The hosts play a game of Ben or Bot, testing AI's ability to mimic Ben's writing.

Adam trained an AI on twenty years of Ben's blog, then asked Ben to pick his own words out of a lineup of forgeries. This week the hosts play a game of Ben or Bot, and you can play along too! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. Mentioned in this episode: Play "Ben's Blog or AI?" yourself The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans MassTransit With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/261-the-ben-turing-test/

People in this episode

Hosts: Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham

Topics covered

• AI
• blogging
• game
• technology
• podcast

Keywords

• AI
• Ben Turing Test
• blog
• forgeries
• podcast
• game

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MassTransit

Books & works: The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans

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