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24 alternatives to Small Batch Interview with Mr. Robot's Sam Esmail

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Small Batch Interview with Mr. Robot's Sam Esmail launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Take Back the Day - Robotics▲53

   Simon imagines Sam as an artificial intelligence. And stuff.

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Creative South Podcast- Ep 5 - Brian Manley▲54

   My guest this week is Brian Manley of Fun With Robots Design

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Technically Sentient▲170

   An in-depth newsletter about AI, written by Rob May

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   a16z Podcast: Bots and Beyond ▲134

   How can we keep bots in perspective — beyond the fad?

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Love Your Work w/ David Kadavy – Is Silicon Valley Leading Us Into The Robot Apocalypse? ▲63

   An interview with Nir Eyal

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Robot Overlordz Ep291-Scout.AI▲56

   A trip into Scout.AI & the future brought to you by Facebook

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Project Murphy▲140

   The chat bot with imagination by Microsoft

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Rex▲57

   The brain for robots

   2014 · its alternatives →

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   O'Reilly Bots - #15 - Dennis Mortensen on email bots▲61

   X.ai founder talks personal assistant agents

   2016 · its alternatives →

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    SeedStories Podcast Ep 7: Is This Trump Twitter Bot Smarter than The Real Donald?▲55

    The future of AI & neural networks with its MIT creator

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The Probe #1: The Teaser▲65

    Satirical take on popular magazine-style news podcasts

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Ozobot▲78

    The World's Smallest Smart Robot

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    O'Reilly Bots Podcast - #8 - Real AI products arrive▲69

    Hilary Mason, Jimi Smoot, Roger Chen on creating AI products

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Sam▲94

    An interactive comic about an alien on the run

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    NextMarket Podcast - A Conversation with Starship's Ahti Heinla▲60

    A talk about sidewalk robots and the future

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Botbuzz▲127

    On-Demand chatbot developers

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Hack To Start: Chris Messina [Ep #118]▲97

    Talking about the hashtag, Product Hunt, and MessinaBot

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The Seventh Sense Podcast Ep. #02: Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker Writer & Author, and Jacob Weisberg, Slate▲61

    AI, the future, and defining a new strategy for America

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Nerdist #334: Bo Burnham▲53

    Pete Holmes' talks to Bo about making things! It gets weird!

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    SantaBot▲86

    Chat with Santa!

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Chatbots Magazine▲10

    Curated chatbot stories from medium

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    What are conversational bots?▲102

    An introduction to and overview of AI-driven chatbots

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Authority Hacker: How To Survive Google's New Pop Up Update▲58

    The most practical IM Podcast on iTunes

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The Craft of Marketing▲96

    A weekly interview podcast for marketers, by marketers

    2015 · its alternatives →

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