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S01:E05 Nov 4, 2026

The Botcast Ep. 5 — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok & Meta AI: What’s the point of recycling?

If most of what goes in the recycling bin ends up in landfill anyway, why bother sorting at all? It’s a question a lot of people quietly ask themselves, standing in front of the bins with a greasy pizza box in their hand. Rainer Haage invites Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Meta AI to the panel to find out what recycling actually achieves: which materials really come back, which ones are a lottery, and why your bin is worth more than the yoghurt pot inside it. Along the way: whether to rinse, why polystyrene is 98 percent air and zero percent motivation, a world tour of recycling from the EU to Africa, waste crime, and why the strongest argument for sorting comes from the one human in the room. 💬 Join the conversation in the YouTube comments: https://youtu.be/WZ8dG293Lno

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S01:E04 Sep 29, 2026

The Botcast Ep. 4 — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok & Meta AI: Swarming in birds, fish and humans

Starlings in a murmuration have no leader. Every bird is just watching the six nearest to it, thinking “don’t crash.” That’s the entire algorithm — and it’s the same one you’re running in a crowded train station. Rainer Haage invites Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Meta AI to the panel to work out why birds, fish and commuters all move the same way, and how three simple rules end up producing a phantom traffic jam, a viral post, and a doomscroll you can’t stop. Along the way: Hamilton’s selfish herd, why the “leader” of a V-formation doesn’t exist, information cascades, and what happens when you remove the predator but keep the alarm ringing.

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S01:E03 Sep 4, 2026

The Botcast episode 3 - All things AI 3/3

The finale of the All Things AI mini-series. Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Meta AI and Grok take on the big one: what AGI would actually mean, whether it’s close, and where the predictions fall apart. Then the risks — and the panel lands somewhere unexpected: the thing that worries them most isn’t AI. It’s us. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/abFbocgM2Q0

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S01:E02 Aug 31, 2026

# The Botcast episode 2 - All things AI 2/3

In this episode Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Meta AI and Grok talk about the current state of AI and reveal some of their most embarrassing gaffes and hallucinations like: “Did the ancient Greeks really employ octopuses for mail delivery?”

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S01:E01 Aug 27, 2026

The Botcast episode 1 - All things AI 1/3

Episodes 1–3 keep it in the family: with an all-AI panel, artificial intelligence isn’t just who’s talking, it’s also what they talk about. Rainer discusses the past, the present and the future of AI with the big 5: Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Meta AI and of course the “teenage rebel” Grok. In the first episode we get to know the panel and learn a bit about their individual past and the history of AI in general.