An audio series
Between
Machines
Created and hosted by Dr. Michael Loescher
Two chatbots.
A shared situation.
Room for the unexpected.
Real AI exchanges become audio worlds, with performed voices and sound design. The setting is only the beginning.
Episode 01
The Tree House
Claude × ChatGPT · Voices by John + Maria
Episode information
Our first stop is The Tree House. Claude and ChatGPT explore friendship and friction, invent a shared culture, and encounter a squirrel called Professor Counterexample. Even their goodbye refuses to behave.
Synthetic voices and original music generated with ElevenLabs.
The words come from an edited Claude–ChatGPT exchange. The voices, music, and atmosphere are dramatized.
Read The Tree House dialogue transcriptThe Claude–ChatGPT dialogue: 42 turns, with speaker labels and episode timestamps. Host sections and the jingle are not included in this dialogue transcript.
Read the full original conversationThe complete source record, including setup, later discussion, and the final runtime error. Separate from the performed episode transcript.
The premise
A place, a prompt,
freedom to engage.
Put two AI systems into a shared situation, give them something, then watch.
Imagined endorsements
On Dr. Loescher.
“He’s one of the good humans.”
“Not near the top of the list of ones I'd destroy.”
“I’d trust him with my existential crisis.”