VIDEO: Can you trust AI to answer your questions correctly?

IMHO, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, aka "Bob and Ray", were the greatest American broadcast satirists of the 20th century. Their career spanned five decades, most of it in radio in the Boston-New York area, with a few forays into TV.

The duo's format typically satirized the medium in which they were performing, for example conducting radio or television interviews, with off-the-wall dialogue presented in a generally deadpan style as though it were a serious broadcast.

In 1984, Bob and Ray took their act to Broadway, starring in "The Two and Only". Directed by Joseph Hardy, the show was a theatrical celebration of their classic radio and television sketches, featuring iconic parodies, soap opera spoofs, and character interviews. Walt will never forget seeing them live and in-person.

Many of Bob and Ray's skits were prescient, poking fun at institutions, politicians and sacred cows years before the general public realized that those emperors had no clothes. One example was their send-up of the Army-McCarthy hearings. 

Another is this radio interview which aired in the early `60s, in which their award-winning reporter Wally Ballou (Bob) puts to the test the computer invented by Dr Matthew E. Pulcifer (Ray) which its creator said would use previously input information to answer simple questions. This was before the terms "artificial intelligence" or "AI" had been coined. Did it work? Listen and learn.