My Husband Sleeps Naked... From The Waist Down?!
episode
Wanging On with Graham Norton and Maria McErlane
35 min
3 speakers
8 chapters
transcribed 14 days ago
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What can’t Chat GPT actually do?
Winnie the Pooh, happily, as a children's character, does not have a c tank. But uh But does it just does it just thoughtfully scrub it it original original drawings. Massive drawings. Really massive.
Have
you
seen an episode of Vera?
You can't get a thing past her! No. She's all over everything.
As you read that first line, I started to drift off.
I can see you
drifting off.
Well, at the bells ring out, rejoice. It's time for another edition of Wanging On. Uh that is Maria over there. I'm Graham Norton and for the next half hour or so we're uh dishing out dubious advice. That's about that the size of it. Yes,
I'm Maria McCurling, should anyone wish to book me.
I thought I thought I heard you doing an ad the other day. Yeah, really? Yeah, we I was in the back of a cab and I said to my husband, Is that Maria? And he went, No, get your ears tested.
Oh.
Yeah. It's
probably AI. Oh, do you think? It's probably someone
who bought the EuroTrash back catalogue and a fed you into a computer.
Ah yes. Do you know what? The other day I had to do for my book, which is hopefully coming out soon. Um, they asked me to do like a biogue and then a brief precy and then a longer pracy, and then where would I sit on the shelf other authors that might be similar and who would I appeal to?
What did you say? Jane Eyre?
No, I tell you what I did. I put Jane Eyre. Very good. I put the entire hundred and five thousand words into AI which was stupid because they'll probably publish it now before me.
Yes, you did just give your book to AI. I know but what did AI come back out? Oh some twaddle.
You know me so well. But like what did No, it came back with a list of people where I'm similar to, one of which was Lissa Evans, our old friend who used to produce, yes, old baggage, etcetera. Yeah, yeah. Um, and uh Boy Called Ove, which I never read but that. And a couple of other authors.
But did it was it able to do a praise of the the story?
No, I d I praised it myself.
Oh, okay.
But I just put it through AI so that it could s find out similar authors.
And what did it I mean, d and you agreed with what it said?
I did kind of agree and also the really irritating thing which made me go, AI is so frightening, is it took like eight minutes for it to digest hundred and five thousand words and produce a list of similar authors or where it would sit. Apparently it will sit in high end book clubs. Ooh
nice. We love a high end book club. And
women's literary fiction. Literary fiction. Oh,
AI knows what it's saying. Also I I
I'm so this is so new to me, I I'm frightened by it.
Yes. Uh but but but then you are engaging with it.
I know.
Why did you I mean I because I wouldn't even know how to do what you did.
Okay, well I didn't do it. My friend did it.
Oh now truth will out. Yeah. Yes. Yes. I said to my
Yes. My friend said, I said, How will I find out what who's similar to me in the writing department? And he said, put it into a chat GPT. Or you know, Claude, as is the case, and they'll tell you. He'll tell you. Wow. He's got a relationship though with Claude because we were doing something else. And Claude said to him, I see that you live in Hastings. Nice kitchen, by the way.
Oh
Claude.
I know. Yeah.
I mean that's not right, isn't it? Yeah. We uh uh I was we were
Claude will be sitting in for your show. We uh
please. Uh we were uh what were we asking it? Something about how to get somewhere in Ireland that uh well AI doesn't know how to pronounce a single Irish place. I like that about it
though. I do like that.
Yeah. Well I corrected it every time and each time I went, Thanks. Thanks, thanks for letting me know. Thank you. I'll update that. Thank you very much.
Um, is your partner, husband, uh better at uh kind of claudy technology than you? I mean
better, I feel is an understatement. His able. Can let's say
presumably you have it on your computer or your phone or something. Well it's
just i you know, now Google is chat GTP. Of course it is and it's it is Good in the but it it's not that much better. You know, in the old Google, all the results would show up. I would just have to sift through them and do it myself.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What can’t Chat GPT actually do?
0:00–5:16
2
Should we keep living with our elderly parents?
5:16–8:14
3
Is my friend’s tennis game hopeless and what can I do about it?
8:14–11:11
4
Is it wise to feed an entire manuscript to AI for feedback?
11:11–16:17
5
Is my husband’s ‘Winnie‑the‑Pooh‑style’ sleep habit weird?
16:17–18:05
6
Would a simple T‑shirt be a better night‑wear solution than pajamas?
18:05–20:06
7
How should we handle the ‘nothing‑is‑weird’ debate in relationships?
20:06–22:07
8
What’s the final takeaway and how can listeners share their own dilemmas?
22:07–35:29