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Hello Outriders!

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On the on the podcast this week - old time (and just plain old - he says...) Outrider Chris Vallance came in off the subs bench to host the programme this week. What a great selection - and some funny "artist's impressions in audio" he came up with. I am very grateful to him for covering so beautifully while I have been away. Thanks Chris!

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We've spoken about the project before on Outriders. Andrew Hudson-Smith gave us an update on how the project's going now that it's been running for a while, and spoke about some of the exciting work being undertaken by the .

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Chatbots have been in the news recently. Chris spoke to who has had a long interest in computers that can interact with natural language. As well as a computer scientist and founder of Lycos, Michael's the man who coined the phrase "chatterbot". Now retired he told Chris about some of the early chatbots and the state of current research.

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And Chris dropped by . YouTube's Sarah Mormino explained the idea behind the camp, and Chris spoke with film maker and musician creator of some rather popular videos about pancakes and other things.

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Thanks again to Chris Vallance for so ably geeking out in my absence. The good news is that he has even more to share with us next week and I'll be back holding the reins with some more interesting internet items.

If you would like to draw our attention to web-related things, then please do not hesitate to drop us a line!

You can email me at Outriders at bbc dot co dot uk, tweet at us on Twitter or come and join the for further weekly updates.

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Until next week!

~ Jamillah

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