Bethany is ready to creep you out this spooky season with some disconcerting AI. We all remember when Alexa was randomly laughing at people, but did you hear about the Twitter bot that tells horror stories? What about the self-driving car that didn’t hit the brakes during a brake test? Or the robot who knows a little too much about nuclear bases around the world? Then, Kathleen is frying up some truth about MSG, that food additive that everyone thinks makes them sick. 

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-https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/shelley/overview/

-https://news.mit.edu/2017/can-ai-learn-to-scare-us-shelley-mit-media-lab-horror-story-1027

-http://nightmare.mit.edu

-https://twitter.com/shelley_ai

-https://www.newsweek.com/halloween-2017-these-horror-stories-created-artificial-intelligence-are-stuff-692764

-https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/new-ai-s-creepy-mind-turns-tweets-horror-stories-ncna814566

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zZFNeq-K0g

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fl4OEZmVg

-https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/7-creepy-things-robots-have-already-done-that-shocked-their-makers.html

-https://www.newsweek.com/halloween-2017-these-horror-stories-created-artificial-intelligence-are-stuff-692764

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoemTySxFso

-https://theoutline.com/post/8302/ai-incredible-horror-stories?zd=1&zi=xizufcbu

-https://www.cnet.com/news/watch-two-google-home-voice-assistants-arguing/

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfcyq7uGbZg&feature=emb_title

KATHLEEN’S SOURCES:

-https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/msg-good-or-bad

-https://www.thehealthy.com/food/what-is-msg-and-how-bad-is-it-really/

-https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/027869159390012N

-https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/is-msg-bad-for-your-health/

-https://www.thehealthy.com/headaches/headache-foods/