100th Episode! A Comedy Retrospective

This episode is my 100th episode! As has been a theme during this research break, I have a special guest today, but this is my only nonhuman guest. No one seems 100% certain whether AI will usher us into a techno paradise or simply take over the world and eliminate us as superfluous. I decided to find out whether ChatGPT could write my podcast better than I can, so I asked it to write some episodes for me. I am pleased to report that I am not yet obsolete.  

But with a great deal of prodding, rewording of prompts, regenerating the answers, setting strict length requirements, and occasional editing by me, I did get ChatGPT to more or less write me a comedy retrospective of all ten series that currently exist on Her Half of History. You'll hear about Harriet Tubman in Shakespearean verse, Mr. Collins explain why we love Jane Austen, a blistering take on who is the best female painter of all time, and more.

Music Credits: 

Original Recordings ("Go Down, Moses" and "Sumer Is Icumen In")Wikimedia Commons ("Skye Boat Song", "God Save the Queen", and "O Canada")Copyright Free Music on YouTube ("We Three Kings")Small incomplete clips of songs readily available on the Internet (theme from Pride and Prejudice (1995), theme from Mission Impossible, theme from Real Housewives of New York)I believe these to fall under the category of fair use, but I will remove if asked.

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