I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good

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  • @TomScottGo
    @TomScottGo  3 роки тому +26469

    I should clarify that by "out of ideas", I mean that I've only got enough to last me until the end of March, or maybe the middle of April if lockdown eases. The way I work, that's close enough that I start to get worried.

    • @hamfrog9893
      @hamfrog9893 3 роки тому +874

      Pinned comment made hours before uploading, as usual

    • @Sohamsta
      @Sohamsta 3 роки тому +515

      😂just upload your videos with longer intervals between each than usual to give yourself more time to gather ideas /film more maybeee

    • @ByronHawk
      @ByronHawk 3 роки тому +21

      Hi

    • @alexandraryverah6397
      @alexandraryverah6397 3 роки тому +24

      Great ideas!

    • @imabot4815
      @imabot4815 3 роки тому +7

      Ok

  • @ResonantRTS
    @ResonantRTS 3 роки тому +37710

    Please, i beg you. Find a cliff that refuses to be a cliff.... im sure he's out there somewhere

    • @MarkLindsayCNC
      @MarkLindsayCNC 3 роки тому +3780

      If it helps any, my middle name is Cliff, and I refuse to answer to it. It wouldn't be much of a video, but there ya go...

    • @jabezcrisp7899
      @jabezcrisp7899 3 роки тому +862

      It is, it's in Norfolk, and it's now the receding coastline...

    • @nerdhomestead
      @nerdhomestead 3 роки тому +278

      Landslide

    • @fruffy3220
      @fruffy3220 3 роки тому +200

      I'm calling your bluff. There's no cliffless cliff out there

    • @EuanBCFC
      @EuanBCFC 3 роки тому +42

      *Holderness says hi*

  • @pogglefishii6807
    @pogglefishii6807 3 роки тому +9620

    “The British road that is also a boat” actually exists in at least one place in Britain since the Woolwich Ferry is considered to be part of the North Circular Road.

  • @Niccolonic
    @Niccolonic 3 роки тому +8086

    "The British Road that is also a Boat" sounds exactly like a Tom Scott video about some sort of ferry that has a street name

    • @haroerhaktak2613
      @haroerhaktak2613 3 роки тому +252

      Or a road that lets people drive over water.

    • @cactusguy4363
      @cactusguy4363 3 роки тому +144

      Or a street called the S.S. something or other.

    • @PatheticTV
      @PatheticTV 3 роки тому +158

      @@haroerhaktak2613 Where do you draw the line between a bridge and a very long boat? Hmm

    • @Niccolonic
      @Niccolonic 3 роки тому +75

      @@PatheticTV one is attached and the other can pick up and move around. I do like the idea of an ambulatory bridge though

    • @haroerhaktak2613
      @haroerhaktak2613 3 роки тому +24

      @@PatheticTV A bridge has things in place to prevent you from just doing a 90 degree turn and deciding the ocean is your new home.
      Majority of roads don't care. So as long as it doesn't have any railings or protections in place, it's a road not a bridge.
      If you were to define a bridge as simply taking you over something else, then technically every road is a bridge.

  • @one_smol_duck
    @one_smol_duck 3 роки тому +5980

    Hahahahahaha I love "The beach where you can hear the sea." If nothing else, this AI could produce top tier shitposting.

    • @g6a0912
      @g6a0912 3 роки тому +329

      The road that was made for transport
      The water bottle that holds water
      The home that holds people
      The train that moves
      The fan that spins

    • @GameGod77
      @GameGod77 3 роки тому +118

      The city with a million lights

    • @daooffibonnacicats8247
      @daooffibonnacicats8247 3 роки тому +1

      @@g6a0912 l

    • @emocrab7545
      @emocrab7545 3 роки тому +8

      @@שחראטדגי-ד4ו that's called ~being deaf~

    • @mattschumacher4581
      @mattschumacher4581 3 роки тому +17

      @@שחראטדגי-ד4ו a beach on a lake

  • @AlRoderick
    @AlRoderick 3 роки тому +2626

    "Please drive carefully: Village is periodically invisible."

    • @omri9325
      @omri9325 3 роки тому +139

      It becomes invisible every time you blink, prove me wrong.

    • @aightbet164
      @aightbet164 3 роки тому +2

      Ooh

    • @travcollier
      @travcollier 3 роки тому +2

      Reminds me of the invisible cows of Maunakea

    • @TimeTravelingFetus
      @TimeTravelingFetus 3 роки тому +22

      SCP

    • @devilspride8694
      @devilspride8694 3 роки тому +28

      Anyone who visits the village will [REDACTED]

  • @Ermude10
    @Ermude10 3 роки тому +7012

    I'm disappointed that the AI didn't give the suggestion: "I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good"

    • @mermaidismyname
      @mermaidismyname 3 роки тому +276

      I once asked an ai to write an article about AIs writing articles

    • @outspade
      @outspade 3 роки тому +11

      @@mermaidismyname wr

    • @Kellexyz
      @Kellexyz 3 роки тому +8

      @ExDeeXD Music wr

    • @harrietjameson
      @harrietjameson 3 роки тому +6

      @@Kellexyz wr

    • @JoBot__
      @JoBot__ 3 роки тому +6

      @@harrietjameson wr

  • @tobylittlejohn8827
    @tobylittlejohn8827 3 роки тому +8139

    For reference, the "strange light in the sky over Oxfordshire" is called the moon.

    • @tusharmaharana3373
      @tusharmaharana3373 3 роки тому +226

      sun

    • @clockworkpotato9892
      @clockworkpotato9892 3 роки тому +75

      Waluigi Dominus.

    • @jahredharrison4069
      @jahredharrison4069 3 роки тому +402

      If you think you've seen the "moon" or something similar to it, I'm afraid I've got bad news: You're in Oxfordshire and have been all along.

    • @gubx42
      @gubx42 3 роки тому +213

      Considering the English weather, the unlikely appearance of the moon may indeed seem strange.

    • @rachelknapp7271
      @rachelknapp7271 3 роки тому +2

      😂

  • @FromJustJ
    @FromJustJ 3 роки тому +7520

    Regarding "The British Road That Is Also A Boat", I direct your attention to the SS Badger, a ferry in the US between Ludington, MI and Manitowoc, WI that is officially a part of highway US 10.

    • @zeroyuki92
      @zeroyuki92 3 роки тому +234

      Soo what's the history of it, I genuinely want to know

    • @Brave_Sir_Robin
      @Brave_Sir_Robin 3 роки тому +514

      Ah but it isn’t British 😩

    • @jimslim4227
      @jimslim4227 3 роки тому +101

      A pontoon bridge is boats that are also a bridge if that counts.

    • @moochoopr9551
      @moochoopr9551 3 роки тому +51

      Why did I imagined "a highway road built on a ferry which acts as a bridge of a highway"...

    • @Eliasstatis2341
      @Eliasstatis2341 3 роки тому +8

      This is amazing

  • @kevinhodge7450
    @kevinhodge7450 3 роки тому +1723

    "It's all farmland"
    Sounds like a Russian utopia to me, comrade.

    • @JJAB91
      @JJAB91 3 роки тому +54

      Not accurate to reality. Needs move government workers taking the food by force and leaving the farmers to go hungry.

    • @noytelinu
      @noytelinu 3 роки тому +5

      You may be right Ranma. Perhaps Ryoga can visit it there one day by accident.

    • @oliverrawnsley2655
      @oliverrawnsley2655 3 роки тому +3

      sounds like the whole of East Yorkshire...

    • @Telamon8
      @Telamon8 3 роки тому +4

      (Rostov Oblast liked this comment)

    • @fireaza
      @fireaza 3 роки тому +1

      Da! We will be growing many of the potato!

  • @theblackumbrella4257
    @theblackumbrella4257 3 роки тому +736

    Tom: Im running out of ideas
    Tom: Oh, that gives me an idea

    • @richardpike8748
      @richardpike8748 3 роки тому +17

      Boom, writer's block has now been solved

    • @Joshlama
      @Joshlama 3 роки тому

      Tom: I've done the idea! I'm out of ideas 😪

    • @Norsilca
      @Norsilca 3 роки тому +4

      Of course, Tom Scott's gonna be the exception to the rule that writers writing about writer's block isn't interesting.

  • @tparadox88
    @tparadox88 3 роки тому +651

    "Welcome to Lofthouse. Please drive carefully, some buildings are invisible."

    • @brandon3883
      @brandon3883 3 роки тому +1

      Given that there's already a sign that says "Please drive carefully", if someone decides to go off-roading here I think they deserve what they get(/hit).

  • @That2J
    @That2J 3 роки тому +4586

    I would love Tom to make one of these “alternate reality” videos for April Fools every year

    • @vincentweaver6038
      @vincentweaver6038 3 роки тому +298

      "April fools is a curse and we should abandon it." - Tom Scott

    • @Fsast9707
      @Fsast9707 2 роки тому +12

      Like geography now does

    • @22oreos
      @22oreos 2 роки тому +34

      Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death

    • @tornadotaylor8956
      @tornadotaylor8956 2 роки тому +6

      You mean similar to how the future prediction ones are?

    • @Kuino
      @Kuino 2 роки тому

      honeslty same

  • @mikan1546
    @mikan1546 3 роки тому +1635

    Okay but "The Cliff that Refuses to be a Cliff" does sound exactly like a Tom Scott video title...

    • @burntchickennugget191
      @burntchickennugget191 3 роки тому +14

      Wouldnt that be an aroading mountain side.

    • @PianoKwanMan
      @PianoKwanMan 3 роки тому +2

      When is a cliff not a cliff?

    • @macmann57
      @macmann57 3 роки тому

      very true

    • @sageinit
      @sageinit 3 роки тому +2

      It's about quadratic-hyperbolic functions (hyphen, not en dash!), clearly.

    • @TheMegaxPlus
      @TheMegaxPlus 3 роки тому +33

      I imagine that the video would be of a infamous cliff that isn't considered a cliff due to legal shenanigans
      Ngl I would watch that

  • @LordOceanus
    @LordOceanus 3 роки тому +1884

    "The green Death and the Industrial Revolution" Actually that sounds like it may work referring to Scheele's Green which killed many thousands of people though arsenic exposure when it became the most popular pigment in Britain.

    • @chrispictures
      @chrispictures 3 роки тому +27

      Or the old pea soupers.

    • @2ms2
      @2ms2 3 роки тому +145

      Like the AI, we also look for patterns.

    • @gunnerkobra
      @gunnerkobra 3 роки тому +32

      This should 100% be a vídeo.

    • @LordOceanus
      @LordOceanus 3 роки тому +17

      @@2ms2 Its what the Human mind does best

    • @mothratemporalradio517
      @mothratemporalradio517 3 роки тому +3

      @@gunnerkobra i would totally be here for it

  • @SwitchAndLever
    @SwitchAndLever 3 роки тому +8150

    "There was no Russian utopia!" That sounds EXACTLY what a Russian utopia would like you to believe!

    • @maxsmith8196
      @maxsmith8196 3 роки тому +301

      Russian utopias usually refer to themselves as that, but it’s actually just millions of dead Ukrainians

    • @falconJB
      @falconJB 3 роки тому +102

      "There was no Russian utopia!" is the counter to every Russian philosopher.

    • @jimbob3332
      @jimbob3332 3 роки тому +48

      It's in the Polyhedron outside of the village, but only kids are allowed inside.

    • @sageinit
      @sageinit 3 роки тому +9

      Soviet Unterzögersdorf is real, don't believe the lies

    • @pvtpain66k
      @pvtpain66k 3 роки тому +13

      INVISIBLE VILLAGE!

  • @lamialua26
    @lamialua26 2 роки тому +1949

    The "white cube at the end of the world" would actually be proof that this entire planet was modelled in Blender, and that its author forgot to delete the default cube before releasing it

    • @goatyqt4553
      @goatyqt4553 2 роки тому +115

      The UV Mesh is insane back here in Canada. I don’t know if it is for the rest of the world though, but I’m happy they rendered every detail even in the middle of nowhere.

    • @populistscum
      @populistscum 2 роки тому +137

      the skybox is bugged out in the UK. it's always completely gray.

    • @goatyqt4553
      @goatyqt4553 2 роки тому +49

      @@populistscum Damn back here where I live they forgot to turn off their geometry nodes animation so the forests have been getting eaten by caterpillars for like 20 years.

    • @confusedaxolotl7833
      @confusedaxolotl7833 2 роки тому +2

      I would like to direct your attention to, "Orbis et Globus," on the tiny island of Grimsey. This island is north of Iceland and functionally the end of the world in that direction.

    • @kennethwardingley9209
      @kennethwardingley9209 2 роки тому +15

      God must have one hell of pc set up in order to render this much detail

  • @Erstus
    @Erstus 3 роки тому +1076

    "The Green Death And The Industrial Revolution." Actually makes a lot of sense. There was a specific green pigment used in the wallpapers during The Industrial Revolution that contained arsenic. Search "arsenic in wallpaper". Also I think it's also not too weird to have a road that is also a boat, just look for bridging boats.

    • @thegreatoutagesign9204
      @thegreatoutagesign9204 3 роки тому +21

      so, a ferry?

    • @lincolntrains2639
      @lincolntrains2639 3 роки тому +79

      @@thegreatoutagesign9204 Not necessarily, the British army has a vehicle called the 'M3 Amphibious rig' Which is essentially a big truck that also floats which can be joined to another truck just like it to form a bridge across a river during a wartime scenario. Note that the British army is not the only country to use these vehicles.

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 3 роки тому +30

      How about a pontoon bridge? There are a pair of floating bridges in Seattle that carry I-90.

    • @CharlesAmericanus
      @CharlesAmericanus 3 роки тому +8

      And Aircraft carriers, wow good points!

    • @dorabrooks76
      @dorabrooks76 3 роки тому +17

      Iirc, arsenic green was also used to dye clothing, poisoning a bunch of people around the same time as the wallpaper...

  • @snipars
    @snipars 3 роки тому +17929

    Will you tell us when we're watching the video that the AI predicted?

    • @maxwellpriore3579
      @maxwellpriore3579 3 роки тому +1259

      maybe the AI predicted this....

    • @majorfallacy5926
      @majorfallacy5926 3 роки тому +450

      Which, for many people, will be an AI-written video, suggested to them by an AI

    • @rorynator7567
      @rorynator7567 3 роки тому +42

      snipers

    • @elevown
      @elevown 3 роки тому +11

      yup please do.

    • @ST3PF0RD
      @ST3PF0RD 3 роки тому +26

      You are the reason I learnt how to edit videos.

  • @catsayswut7097
    @catsayswut7097 3 роки тому +1416

    "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" is a title that I would totally expect Tom to make, so well the bot really is on something

    • @h-Films
      @h-Films 3 роки тому +5

      I agree

    • @petterjy5047
      @petterjy5047 3 роки тому +4

      Tru

    • @abbofun9022
      @abbofun9022 3 роки тому +6

      A sanddune on the Dutch coast possibly?

    • @zetahurley294
      @zetahurley294 3 роки тому +22

      I can imagine a cliff that TECHNICALLY wasn't a cliff legally, like how there was that period where NASAs definition for a moon technically didn't include the moon. And then the definition of a cliff changed but there was a Rockslide of something that shifted the cliff and made it still technically not a cliff

    • @HomeTownAdventurers
      @HomeTownAdventurers 3 роки тому +3

      I volunteer to play myself!

  • @vs5210
    @vs5210 Рік тому +187

    5:24 I asked ChatGPT for an English word for "nostalgia for a thing that could never have existed" and it gave me "anemoia", a word coined by John Koenig in 2012 for his "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows". It's been two years since this video came out.

    • @batabids
      @batabids 11 місяців тому +3

      isn’t that a disease or something

    • @beyondobscure
      @beyondobscure 11 місяців тому

      Nope it's true@@batabids

    • @ThatOnionispog
      @ThatOnionispog 9 місяців тому +8

      thats anaemia@@batabids

    • @batabids
      @batabids 3 місяці тому

      @@ThatOnionispogmy bad

  • @isaacmcmanus3666
    @isaacmcmanus3666 3 роки тому +3506

    The word you are looking for is Hiraeth, it is a Welsh loan word and is nostalgia for something you have never experienced.

    • @bfcraft87
      @bfcraft87 3 роки тому +118

      the meaning of hiraeth isn’t: homesickness from a place you can’t return, or that never was?

    • @Col_Mustard
      @Col_Mustard 3 роки тому +159

      @@bfcraft87 well, etymologically, nostalgia does mean homesickness. So both concepts are quite similar.

    • @manskken
      @manskken 3 роки тому +10

      i was about to comment this!

    • @ycylchgames
      @ycylchgames 3 роки тому +41

      @@bfcraft87 It doesnt translate properly but it means longing for something, usually it's been used to mean a longer to return to Wales but technically it could mean a longing for anything.

    • @DatBisa
      @DatBisa 3 роки тому +70

      The welsh have their own word for Vaporwave? Wild.

  • @jamiewindsor
    @jamiewindsor 3 роки тому +3313

    There's no word for nostalgia for a thing that never existed as far as I know, but the word _Anemoia_ has been coined to describe nostalgia for a time you personally have never experienced.

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff 3 роки тому +319

      Welsh has _hiraeth_ at least, _"a deep feeling of yearning for a home that cannot be returned to, no longer exists, or never was"_
      English has a close connection to Welsh, so nothing wrong with borrowing the word. Maybe respelling it to "hirythe"/"hirighth"

    • @brauno3539
      @brauno3539 3 роки тому +179

      German author Walter Moers invented a word in a book, I am currently reading (Princess Insomnia).
      Its called "Niemalsweh (combination of never and wanderlust):
      It is like wanderlust for a place you will never get to, because it does not exist or exists only in your imagination"
      (Otherwise there is no german word for it)

    • @TheFaro2011
      @TheFaro2011 3 роки тому +13

      Wow , that's me for the 70s

    • @gerontion1011
      @gerontion1011 3 роки тому +14

      Hauntology and Nostalgia for Lost Futures according to Mark Fisher

    • @iamlooktoyou
      @iamlooktoyou 3 роки тому +6

      what about deja vu?

  • @Qubrof
    @Qubrof 3 роки тому +1603

    "The Green Death and the Industrial Revolution" sounds like a fascinating look at the use of the arsenic-laden Paris Green pigment in wallpaper in Victorian times, and how it started to fall out of use around the turn of the century.

    • @lawrencecalablaster568
      @lawrencecalablaster568 3 роки тому +29

      oh YES

    • @lawrencecalablaster568
      @lawrencecalablaster568 3 роки тому +91

      Combine this with the famous pea-soup fog caused by “sea-coal” burning & you’ve got gold (or arsenic).

    • @sarahkay4765
      @sarahkay4765 3 роки тому +41

      thats rlly interesting. I was just thinking the title referred to the pollution/damage the industrial revolution caused to its surroundings.

    • @mirjanbouma
      @mirjanbouma 3 роки тому +9

      It wasn't just Scheele's green though. Arsenic compounds were used in a lot of things and not just as pigments either.

    • @ThePixel1983
      @ThePixel1983 3 роки тому

      I wonder why it fell out of use...

  • @peterfalconer
    @peterfalconer 3 роки тому +1873

    As an artist who creates parafictional histories, I'm delighted to see that AI might be coming for my job, too. It's nice to feel included.

    • @disnagburnazog9552
      @disnagburnazog9552 3 роки тому +8

      rofl

    • @elhopper3735
      @elhopper3735 2 роки тому +4

      Lmao

    • @alejjtheninja5803
      @alejjtheninja5803 2 роки тому +30

      Ah yes, the thought of being redundant also fills me with glee.

    • @mattchamp1541
      @mattchamp1541 2 роки тому +9

      Don't worry, for my honors I built a robot that draws actual art, so we're also coming for that

    • @cecildesist
      @cecildesist 2 роки тому +1

      Parafictional histories? I’d love to see some of your work! :Dc

  • @kalvaxus
    @kalvaxus 3 роки тому +641

    "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" sounds like such a British video.

    • @Bruno-cb5gk
      @Bruno-cb5gk 3 роки тому +16

      Or it could just be a really boring video about a guy named Cliff who changed his name

    • @be9concepts
      @be9concepts 3 роки тому +3

      "Cliffs are shaped through erosion and weathering . ... As the notch increases in size, the cliff becomes unstable and collapses, leading to the retreat of the cliff face. The backwash carries away the eroded material, leaving a wave-cut platform."

    • @genericname8727
      @genericname8727 3 роки тому +1

      @@Bruno-cb5gk I want that video tbh

  • @OuroborosChoked
    @OuroborosChoked 3 роки тому +1335

    Tom Scott: I'm out of ideas.
    Also Tom Scott: ...that gives me an idea!

    • @davidwickline9710
      @davidwickline9710 3 роки тому +34

      AI, I know what we’re gonna do today!

    • @davidwickline9710
      @davidwickline9710 3 роки тому +1

      @@שחראטדגי-ד4ו That would be IA, common mistake

  • @mulgerbill
    @mulgerbill 3 роки тому +1200

    Time to revisit an old idea with a modern twist
    ""Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff that refuses to be a cliff""

    • @kenet7877
      @kenet7877 3 роки тому +34

      Banger comment, sir/madam/human

    • @TheLoopyTiger
      @TheLoopyTiger 3 роки тому +20

      @@kenet7877 Maybe they're an AI?

    • @yt.lilsantee
      @yt.lilsantee 3 роки тому +13

      @@TheLoopyTiger Maybe YOU are an AI :0

    • @Big-Chungus21
      @Big-Chungus21 3 роки тому +11

      Bad dum ts- the fabric of reality falls apart as reality refuses to be real.

    • @mulgerbill
      @mulgerbill 3 роки тому +5

      @@TheLoopyTiger it seems odd to bestow intellect on a bundle of vague sensory perceptions

  • @RoseAbrams
    @RoseAbrams Рік тому +491

    Today, I asked ChatGPT to make a script for the "Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death" episode of Top Gear. It went perfect, and consisted of him surviving races in six cars with various life-threatening faults.

    • @caav56
      @caav56 Рік тому +4

      Can you release it anywhere, please?

    • @RoseAbrams
      @RoseAbrams Рік тому +32

      @@caav56 I didn't save it. But you can just make one yourself, ChatGPT is free and a prompt could be like "write a script for an episode of Top Gear titled..."

    • @CinemaDemocratica
      @CinemaDemocratica Рік тому +21

      I did "The Cliff That Refuses to be a Cliff" and it's friggin perfect. I also stretched out a little and did, "The Day That Richard Nixon Crashed a Cow."

    • @manfail7469
      @manfail7469 Рік тому +3

      this would actually be a sick idea for an episode, the guys draw straws to drive different cars in a race, one with the steering broken, one with failing brakes, and one with a sticking throttle before racing them

    • @Klick404
      @Klick404 5 місяців тому +1

      One of the cars is just driven by Hammond

  • @schmid1.079
    @schmid1.079 3 роки тому +894

    "Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff, but the Cliff refuses to be a cliff."

  • @AbbreviatedReviews
    @AbbreviatedReviews 3 роки тому +462

    I want "The Cliff That Refuses To Be A Cliff" video. It would obviously be about a cliff that is carved out by the sea but keeps collapsing back into a sloped bank.

    • @ajaxrosso1
      @ajaxrosso1 3 роки тому +34

      Funnily enough also in East yorkshire

    • @Rebar77_real
      @Rebar77_real 3 роки тому +8

      That reminds me of the way the Niagara horseshoe falls are carving themselves up river.

    • @justrecentlyi5444
      @justrecentlyi5444 3 роки тому

      It could also be a video about Cliff Richard

  • @josipcuric8767
    @josipcuric8767 3 роки тому +904

    "The british road that is also a boat" isn't that a ferry??

    • @luzcro7345
      @luzcro7345 3 роки тому +51

      Or a bridge that floats freely on some river

    • @B-M.B
      @B-M.B 3 роки тому +42

      @@luzcro7345 and there is actually a bridge wide enough for cars build on floating Pontons..

    • @NotADoctor558
      @NotADoctor558 3 роки тому +26

      Yep, the SR 520 floating bridge in Seattle. I'm sure that's not the only one though.

    • @blunderingfool
      @blunderingfool 3 роки тому +16

      There’s a modern rope-ferry in use in (I think) the south of England. The water flows too fast for a regular ferry to operate.

    • @kkmac7247
      @kkmac7247 3 роки тому +8

      @@NotADoctor558 Seattle, my favourite place in Britain

  • @thehoodedteddy1335
    @thehoodedteddy1335 3 роки тому +1117

    I wish you had hit the “write script” button on Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death

    • @andrewbrown464
      @andrewbrown464 3 роки тому +32

      I can hear the theme song now...

    • @calblack4156
      @calblack4156 3 роки тому +92

      Sometimes my genius its almost frightening

    • @ringoferrer2343
      @ringoferrer2343 2 роки тому +54

      This is the deadliest lottery *_in the world_*

    • @Elmojomo
      @Elmojomo 2 роки тому +11

      MOAR POWER... pardon me, I meant to say.... MOAR DEATH! - Jeremy

    • @grantflippin7808
      @grantflippin7808 2 роки тому +2

      Spoilers

  • @GadgetAddict
    @GadgetAddict 3 роки тому +3358

    3 years from now we'll find out all these videos were created by AI and poor Scott has been locked in a goop filled pod.

    • @user936
      @user936 3 роки тому +78

      Before we too find out we're in goop filled pods, 4 towers over.

    • @AlbertScoot
      @AlbertScoot 3 роки тому +35

      @@user936 My goop filled pod is crap. There's a pandemic worldwide, I caught the virus and recovered with minimal issues but the world's still f-ed.

    • @user936
      @user936 3 роки тому +4

      @@AlbertScoot just keep playing the game til everyone else wakes up - shouldn't be too long now ⏳

    • @avnishshrivastava2272
      @avnishshrivastava2272 3 роки тому +2

      Claim just in case this happens I was here before ticket here

    • @Michael_Pereira
      @Michael_Pereira 3 роки тому +2

      Sounds like something an AI would say

  • @stevenbridges
    @stevenbridges 3 роки тому +2580

    I like how you put the text over the video to say it’s fictional, just incase someone clipped it and used it to start a weird conspiracy theory 😂

    • @benholroyd5221
      @benholroyd5221 3 роки тому +89

      Well there's already a Wikipedia page.

    • @hygo64
      @hygo64 3 роки тому +19

      @@benholroyd5221 I need a link!

    • @csweezey18
      @csweezey18 3 роки тому +11

      @@benholroyd5221 Link needed!

    • @benholroyd5221
      @benholroyd5221 3 роки тому +20

      @@csweezey18
      You have trust issues
      As Helena Von Hahn said
      "There is no religion higher than truth"
      But then you are the Antichrist.
      and i'm an atheist.

    • @dragonrykr
      @dragonrykr 3 роки тому +4

      Linkkk

  • @judebedessem4101
    @judebedessem4101 3 роки тому +1160

    7:14 That car in the background had excellent timing. Right on cue

    • @yaboi7239
      @yaboi7239 3 роки тому +24

      damn you right

    • @matthew9677
      @matthew9677 3 роки тому +17

      So good you don't notice

    • @HI-hx6jr
      @HI-hx6jr 3 роки тому +14

      All of the cars passing had good timing for whatever reason

    • @bombyman84
      @bombyman84 3 роки тому +13

      Around 1:17 there's a good timed car too

    • @Bobsmith-xq2pr
      @Bobsmith-xq2pr 2 роки тому +1

      I think he timed it, quality video making by tom

  • @HeidiBird
    @HeidiBird 3 роки тому +220

    Omg, it's adorable that you asked the AI using "please" at the start of your request. You are definitely one of the few people who are going to survive the techno-apocalypse because you showed the machines respect from the start.
    EDIT: and then this took a scary and sinister turn when you mentioned the possibility of AI generating customer reviews etc...

  • @palestine2795
    @palestine2795 3 роки тому +412

    "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" that killed me for some reason. Sounds like a video you'd actually do

    • @WeaselKing1000
      @WeaselKing1000 3 роки тому +34

      It's certainly 'The Other Tree That Owns Itself'-adjacent.

    • @prezadent1
      @prezadent1 3 роки тому +4

      I like the animator that refuses to animate.

  • @Chewierulz
    @Chewierulz 3 роки тому +436

    "The Strange Light that Floats over Oxfordshire"
    I know it's very cloudy in the UK but surely Brits know what the moon is.

    • @elylozada9576
      @elylozada9576 3 роки тому +25

      Underrated. Thanks for the chuckle.

    • @higurro
      @higurro 3 роки тому +66

      Of course we do; we landed there

    • @end3rzl33t
      @end3rzl33t 3 роки тому +4

      Maybe the AI is simulating a drunk Brit that's giving suggestions? 😜

    • @ninjadudeofficial
      @ninjadudeofficial 3 роки тому

      But the moon isn't a light? Or are we saying 'close enough'?

    • @xhafts
      @xhafts 3 роки тому

      @@higurro britain never landed china did 🇨🇳 we are saving world and do most for space exploration out of all country

  • @TehJimlad
    @TehJimlad 3 роки тому +844

    You should have saved 'the beach where you can hear the sea' for april fool's day

    • @thebiglightbulb1457
      @thebiglightbulb1457 3 роки тому +1

      Exactly

    • @user-mq3um5iu2q
      @user-mq3um5iu2q 3 роки тому +29

      let's hope he's saving an even better one then!

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ 3 роки тому +14

      @I WANT ŞĘX !!! SEE MY VÌDEÓ !!! Begone, bot! 😡😡😡😡

    • @ivanzoric2405
      @ivanzoric2405 3 роки тому +2

      Look up Zadar Sea Organ , it is from Zadar, a city on the coast of Croatia. :)

    • @Felixr2
      @Felixr2 3 роки тому +8

      @@DrWhoFanJ Replying to a bot means their channel name and link will stay here even if the comment has eventually gotten enough reports to get deleted. Also, it makes the comment appear higher up in the comment section for the period before it gets removed. Just report and don't interact with them, that's the best countermeasure.

  • @tobyparker6239
    @tobyparker6239 3 роки тому +167

    "GPT-3 is the worlds most powerful Bigotry generator." Oh great, now I'm going to have AI calling me newly invented racial slurs like i've just entered the worlds most creative COD lobby.

  • @colinmanning9080
    @colinmanning9080 3 роки тому +4958

    Hire an artist to animate these “parallel universe” stories that are narrated by you with the script created bythe AI. Call it “Tales of the Multiverse”

    • @vesperin5172
      @vesperin5172 3 роки тому +171

      Good idea, but it wouldn't actually teach you anything, so I don't think he'd do it.

    • @jayturner5242
      @jayturner5242 3 роки тому +410

      Would make a good second channel. Tom should wear Green in them

    • @juliusnepos6013
      @juliusnepos6013 3 роки тому +35

      This sounds rad

    • @radekchrabota
      @radekchrabota 3 роки тому +60

      @@jayturner5242 woah, that's a bit extreme, I mean can you even imagine Tom wearing green?

    • @kaelanirevyruun1676
      @kaelanirevyruun1676 3 роки тому +36

      Sounds too generic. A better name would be “Chronicles from the Alterverse” xD

  • @mr.nerd3.142
    @mr.nerd3.142 3 роки тому +1084

    “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” broke me. Because it legitimately sounds like something that could happen.

    • @Never_Or_More
      @Never_Or_More 3 роки тому +36

      I'd watch it.

    • @PlebNC
      @PlebNC 3 роки тому +90

      Clarkson: This is the deadliest game show.... IN THE WORLD.

    • @hhhharis622
      @hhhharis622 3 роки тому +6

      I would watch that

    • @KuK137
      @KuK137 3 роки тому +13

      AKA "who that imbecile will drunkedly punch next for no reason"...

    • @lewisbaitup6352
      @lewisbaitup6352 3 роки тому +2

      @@KuK137 i mean it would be very rare to get punched by jermery clarkson

  • @anch95
    @anch95 3 роки тому +1901

    "Jeremy Clarkson's lottery of death"
    The loser rides with Richard Hammond.

    • @alxwlsh
      @alxwlsh 3 роки тому +77

      No, the loser has their knees smashed in with Clarkson's arsenal of Hammers.

    • @UltraMaXAtAXX
      @UltraMaXAtAXX 3 роки тому +60

      Oh no! Anyway.

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ 3 роки тому +28

      @I WANT ŞĘX !!! SEE MY VÌDEÓ !!! Begone, bot! 😡😡😡😡

    • @snoozieboi
      @snoozieboi 3 роки тому +25

      But is it the most deadly lottery .... in the world?

    • @SettyAngle
      @SettyAngle 3 роки тому +5

      @I WANT ŞĘX !!! SEE MY VÌDEÓ !!! bot

  • @thescaredshadow
    @thescaredshadow 3 роки тому +343

    Couldn't "The green death and the Industrial Revolution" be about how the Thames River was so horribly polluted before indoor plumbing or how Paris Green was used in common stuff like clothing and paint was extremely deadly.

    • @zappababe8577
      @zappababe8577 3 роки тому +31

      Ooo, that's a really accurate observation!

    • @MrToradragon
      @MrToradragon 2 роки тому +34

      Or maybe about green wallpapers that used arsenic fot that vibrant green ant it really had killed several people?

    • @theKobus
      @theKobus 2 роки тому +8

      "green death and the industrial revolution" is a very Caitlyn Doughty topic

    • @watchm4ker
      @watchm4ker 3 місяці тому

      ​@@MrToradragon That's "Paris Green". It was marketed under a dozen different names, but the pigment compound is copper(II) acetoarsenite

  • @smoche
    @smoche 3 роки тому +3835

    “The cliff that refuses to be a cliff.”
    Looks like _someones_ having an identity crisis

    • @yriafehtivan
      @yriafehtivan 3 роки тому +31

      Cliff Richards?

    • @alexhando8541
      @alexhando8541 3 роки тому +20

      If you think about it, all cliffs do that

    • @Hans-gb4mv
      @Hans-gb4mv 3 роки тому +6

      The AI that refuses to be an AI

    • @8draco8
      @8draco8 3 роки тому +52

      What if it's about cliff made out of sand that is quite fast turning into beach. That would be definitely cliff that refuses to be a cliff especially if people would try to somehow prevent it turning into beach but failed. Like "Fastest collapsing cliffs in Skipsea, Yorkshire" - google it, it's actually a thing.

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 3 роки тому +3

      @@Jack_The_Ladd If there were a language where pronouns changed based on last name then this sentence could actually make sense
      Edit: The comment I was responding to has been mysteriously deleted

  • @chancesmith116
    @chancesmith116 3 роки тому +1732

    “The Strange Light over Oxfordshire” that’s just the moon, Tom.

    • @Shanoyu19271
      @Shanoyu19271 3 роки тому +5

      lmao

    • @zane_sadauskis
      @zane_sadauskis 3 роки тому +5

      are you sure about that?

    • @wendimunson844
      @wendimunson844 3 роки тому +57

      Heck, it could possibly even be the sun. Yes, I know, not very likely

    • @PolarBear-rc4ks
      @PolarBear-rc4ks 3 роки тому +2

      Ooh not heard of that one? Whats that about

    • @benford1726
      @benford1726 3 роки тому +6

      Based on the posts on my towns Facebook group, it's probably a helicopter

  • @Twentydragon
    @Twentydragon 3 роки тому +94

    Only Tom Scott could turn "I'm out of ideas" into an intriguing video.

  • @jellyrolls2765
    @jellyrolls2765 3 роки тому +423

    When I heard "The Dream of a russian utopia in east yorkshire" that legitimately started ringing vague memory bells in my head. The power of suggesting something plausible is so strong

    • @aarons8711
      @aarons8711 3 роки тому +14

      To be fair, England and America were breeding grounds for experimental utopian societies during the great awakenings- you might have heard about them if you studied US history in America (it’s part of AP US History)
      Hell I wouldn’t even be surprised if a few of them were Russian 🤷‍♂️

    • @coinsilver3
      @coinsilver3 3 роки тому +2

      Disney actually tried to do that in florida.

    • @nikitaavdeev9681
      @nikitaavdeev9681 3 роки тому +2

      Arise proletarians of Yorkshire against the bourgeoisie

    • @Allan003
      @Allan003 3 роки тому +3

      I don't recall what it was called, so take this with the understanding it could be wrong. However, I know in western Canada there was a Russian (CCCP, respectively) sponsored township. It was an experimental idea with it's own self governing leadership. I believe it was in the 1950's, in Alberta or British Columbia. Though, in the America's it is not uncommon for settlements of people from one nation to still exist with little to no influence from the country they are in.

    • @Cruxador
      @Cruxador 3 роки тому +1

      Well, the AI references the internet for its sources so there's probably something which is true that's more or less similar to that story - though clearly not where the AI said it was.

  • @AllanLimosin
    @AllanLimosin 3 роки тому +1370

    Tom Scott: “Do you have ideas for videos?”
    AI: “Talk about you asking me ideas of videos”
    📈

    • @StoriesByDighe
      @StoriesByDighe 3 роки тому +29

      STONKS

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 3 роки тому +21

      I know were all joking around, but could you imagine if that actually was the case? I'd have a much different opinion of where neural networks are at the current moment.

    • @devinweston8983
      @devinweston8983 3 роки тому +4

      Takashi brothers: feel the power of the rotary

    • @StormTheSquid
      @StormTheSquid 3 роки тому +3

      @@Spibidydkdushusbwns Please tell me where I can access this. I need reference images for things that can't possibly exist for my art projects.
      Also is there a way to convert thoughts into words? I need that as well so I can stop being mute half the time.

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 3 роки тому +3

      @@Spibidydkdushusbwns I Haven't seen it. But thanks for telling me about it, it's really interesting.

  • @割
    @割 3 роки тому +1187

    isn’t the “Cliff that refuses to be a cliff” kind of a throwback to “Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff” since that wasn’t actually a cliff you threw them off?

    • @jaredkennedy6576
      @jaredkennedy6576 3 роки тому +26

      That would be interesting with current version Tom Scott.

    • @123457474869
      @123457474869 3 роки тому +1

      That was most certainly a cliff

    • @割
      @割 3 роки тому +8

      @@123457474869 it was not a cliff, if you watch the park bench video you tom states that it is not a cliff

    • @kathybramley5609
      @kathybramley5609 3 роки тому

      If someone mentions a post joke badum tss or drum and cymbals explicitly... Well, it might eventually become like my (or rather young Mr Scott's) version of rickrolling. But it's not there yet.

    • @therealbeanbot
      @therealbeanbot 3 роки тому

      @@123457474869 specific name

  • @wyvernlad13
    @wyvernlad13 2 роки тому +59

    5:21 There is a word, it’s Anemoia. It’s defined as a feeling of nostalgia for a time you didn’t experience, whether it be vicarious through someone else, for a time in the past, or a time that didn’t happen at all. Another similar word to describe the feeling is Ringlorn, defined as the wish that the modern world felt as epic as the ones depicted in old stories and folktales.

    • @LeifNelandDk
      @LeifNelandDk Рік тому

      Some ABBA songs give me that feeling. E.g "Our last summer" I never walked hand in hand along the river Seine, but it feels like I have when I hear it.

  • @Caparo479
    @Caparo479 3 роки тому +887

    Tom standing on a beach and astonishingly saying "I can... hear the sea."
    That truly broke me

  • @2-Way_Intersection
    @2-Way_Intersection 3 роки тому +1090

    "the strange light over oxfordshire" would be an amazing april fools video. like it's just you talking about the sun like its some wierd historical light and not, yknow, _the sun_

    • @unflexian
      @unflexian 2 роки тому +20

      It's giving dihydrogen monoxide and I love it

    • @kjn3350
      @kjn3350 2 роки тому +24

      To be fair, it would be strange if the sun were out over Oxfordshire.

  • @mattpinkerton6562
    @mattpinkerton6562 3 роки тому +982

    Petition to create a new channel called Tom Bott which is just full of these fictional stories

    • @carlnesterud5638
      @carlnesterud5638 3 роки тому +52

      Tom Sbott

    • @ceruchi2084
      @ceruchi2084 3 роки тому +14

      It can be an even more sci-fi dystopian version of his tales from a future series.

    • @citywitt3202
      @citywitt3202 3 роки тому +13

      Imagine the parallel universe where he’s making these videos already, where this video is about finding ideas that are real and ditching AI...

    • @olasdorosdiliusimilius2174
      @olasdorosdiliusimilius2174 3 роки тому +2

      @@carlnesterud5638 Tom Sbeve

    • @nicky2575
      @nicky2575 3 роки тому

      Oh YES

  • @meiguess6765
    @meiguess6765 2 роки тому +96

    I like how the sound of the car going by at 7:09 corresponded with the sigmoid curve in volume and emphasized the dramatic change that can occur in technology

    • @AlexPushkinChannel
      @AlexPushkinChannel Рік тому +3

      parabola not sigmoid

    • @PremiumCheeses
      @PremiumCheeses Рік тому

      I was hoping somebody else noticed this, it felt dramatic in a way nobody could've ever expected or predicted

    • @Baconator1368
      @Baconator1368 Рік тому +1

      the sound of the car roughly follows the derivative of the sigmoid curve, not the sigmoid curve

    • @jaytheman5386
      @jaytheman5386 Рік тому +7

      @@AlexPushkinChannelthanks for spreading misinformation

    • @proloycodes
      @proloycodes 10 місяців тому

      ​@@Baconator1368since when did cars have their own cars?!

  • @swookang2575
    @swookang2575 3 роки тому +1047

    I really wish to read the generated script for "Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death"

  • @xtreemgamer129
    @xtreemgamer129 3 роки тому +147

    7:20 the sound of that car passing by lined up so perfectly with the graph animation it feels like it had to have been planned

  • @MrMessiah2013
    @MrMessiah2013 3 роки тому +1679

    Humble suggestion for nostalgia about things that never existed: '"not"stalgia'

    • @aliciacordero7436
      @aliciacordero7436 3 роки тому +11

      I like it

    • @brandonmartin-moore5302
      @brandonmartin-moore5302 3 роки тому +9

      Dave Gorman did something like that.

    • @rufushb3872
      @rufushb3872 3 роки тому +90

      The dictionary of obscure sorrows has a word for this.
      Anemoia - 'nostalgia for a time you've never known'

    • @Lc-vv8dw
      @Lc-vv8dw 3 роки тому +11

      how about Yesstalgia

    • @LilliD3
      @LilliD3 3 роки тому +2

      @@rufushb3872 that is not the same thing

  • @countertony
    @countertony Рік тому +19

    At 7:12 and onward, well done (whether by accident or design) for having the 'whoosh' of the passing car sync up with the steepest point on the sigmoid curve.

  • @floydhebert3684
    @floydhebert3684 3 роки тому +1698

    I need to see “The Cliff That Refuses To Be A Cliff” and “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” immediately

    • @travdump209
      @travdump209 3 роки тому +75

      Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death is the Venn diagram of Top Gear and Top Gun.

    • @billul1
      @billul1 3 роки тому +21

      Bottom Gear live action

    • @Hans-gb4mv
      @Hans-gb4mv 3 роки тому +7

      That second one might be coming to Amazon Prime Video soon 😆

    • @ridingtothegrave
      @ridingtothegrave 3 роки тому +2

      I need the white cube

    • @8draco8
      @8draco8 3 роки тому +14

      I think Jeremy Clarkson Lottery of Death is a thing but only Hammond is playing

  • @aydenkron2254
    @aydenkron2254 3 роки тому +432

    “The British road that’s also a boat” and “the cliff that refuses to be a cliff” are both titles I would expect to see on this channel honestly

    • @altaccout
      @altaccout 3 роки тому +70

      "The British road that’s also a boat" sounds like a permanent pontoon bridge. Maybe this pontoon bridge moves up and down a river depending on where the bridge is needed.

    • @unitrader403
      @unitrader403 3 роки тому +3

      @@altaccout Or alternatively some River which has huge changes to the Water Flow/Depth, and also the Ground wont support a proper solid bridge (and/or the traffic is so low that it would be too expensive)

    • @rushi5638
      @rushi5638 3 роки тому +29

      Or just, you know, a ferry that's listed on some map as being part of a roadway.

    • @nekomatafuyu
      @nekomatafuyu 3 роки тому +26

      "The British road that's also a boat" to me conjures up the idea of a ferry crossing that has been issued a road designation. That actually sounds like a plausible idea come to think about it.

    • @arinkhandelwal
      @arinkhandelwal 3 роки тому +3

      'the British road thats also a boat' sounds like the description of an aircraft carrier

  • @davisdesigns1153
    @davisdesigns1153 3 роки тому +1241

    The Onion: *Write that down!*

    • @oktemsk7174
      @oktemsk7174 3 роки тому +2

      Whos that

    • @cringe511
      @cringe511 3 роки тому +12

      @@oktemsk7174 It’s a satirical news channel, if you watch some of their videos you’ll get the idea

    • @dubiousmoonpie6155
      @dubiousmoonpie6155 3 роки тому +8

      @@oktemsk7174 you gotta watch their stuff from 6+ years ago tho. That’s where the gold is at

    • @panhandlesomen
      @panhandlesomen 3 роки тому +17

      @@dubiousmoonpie6155 *anonymous hero donates 300 kidneys to a hospital*

    • @matthewhrenchir2977
      @matthewhrenchir2977 3 роки тому +1

      Remember to check out the next season of *Sex House*!

  • @rincallinen7312
    @rincallinen7312 3 роки тому +24

    5:05 I just want to appreciate this specific art. It’s my favorite out of the ones here.

  • @nominis4523
    @nominis4523 3 роки тому +188

    "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" actually sounds like a Tom Scott video

    • @steve1
      @steve1 3 роки тому +5

      I think it might be a channel 5 documentary about a guy called Cliff who looks and sounds like Cliff Richard but refuses to be a look a like and instead pursues his dream of breeding tropical fish.

  • @GamesFromSpace
    @GamesFromSpace 3 роки тому +824

    "Parastalgia."
    I checked google, and this is apparently a new word, but it has been used as a moniker.

    • @PuppetSquid
      @PuppetSquid 3 роки тому +11

      I quite like "
      La nostalgie du possible" too

    • @z-beeblebrox
      @z-beeblebrox 3 роки тому +87

      I like it, because it's both a logically accurate prefix (para- meaning outside of/abnormal, both of which work) and it also evokes the word "parallel" as in "parallel worlds". Additionally it removes the root for 'memory' (the "nos" part), which makes sense because it's describing things which by definition we'd have no memory of.

    • @EcoCurious
      @EcoCurious 3 роки тому +8

      I like this, I'm going to start using it if I ever get the chance!

    • @tiko4621
      @tiko4621 3 роки тому +12

      Anemoia is another way I’ve heard this feeling described.

    • @z-beeblebrox
      @z-beeblebrox 3 роки тому +39

      @@tiko4621 Except "anemoia" is nostalgia for REAL events that you never took part in. It's a small difference, but I think it's an important one.

  • @zhuofanzhang9974
    @zhuofanzhang9974 3 роки тому +130

    Props to the driver at 7:17 that made the sound at the same time as "the world is changing". That's some serious serendipity.

    • @PinkishPlant
      @PinkishPlant 3 роки тому

      Wait it wasn’t edited in?

    • @AhimtarHoN
      @AhimtarHoN 3 роки тому

      TIL a new word "serendipity", thanks

  • @popkittycat
    @popkittycat 2 роки тому +18

    5:16
    Anemoia, is a nostalgic sense of longing for a past you yourself have never lived.

  • @chocolateorange
    @chocolateorange 3 роки тому +112

    Glad to know that Lofthouse was in fact not invisible.

  • @Patterrz
    @Patterrz 3 роки тому +3012

    Secret British Moon landings? The Empire rises again

    • @BulbasaurRepresent
      @BulbasaurRepresent 3 роки тому +86

      GLORY TO THE EMPIRE

    • @carstorm85
      @carstorm85 3 роки тому +46

      Sounds like the premise for a video game!

    • @IlluminatiBG
      @IlluminatiBG 3 роки тому +27

      If we knew about those, they won't be secret, wouldn't they?

    • @somestupiddudewithayoutube4676
      @somestupiddudewithayoutube4676 3 роки тому +37

      The colonial invasions part 2: electric boogaloo

    • @maciek_k.cichon
      @maciek_k.cichon 3 роки тому +10

      oh, H.G. Wells wrote the novel about it in 1901, and they filmed it 1964. Good show!

  • @JooJPC
    @JooJPC 3 роки тому +389

    "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" seems like a story that could be in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

    • @erufailon4723
      @erufailon4723 3 роки тому +17

      A planet of sentient geographic features has to exist somewhere in H2G2's universe, this is my headcanon now

    • @blindleader42
      @blindleader42 3 роки тому +2

      Or Discworld

    • @annap697
      @annap697 3 роки тому +1

      Yesss!

    • @SD1fruitbat
      @SD1fruitbat 3 роки тому +3

      I was thinking something more along the lines of "Worlds Most Horizontal Cliff!"

    • @eefneleman9564
      @eefneleman9564 3 роки тому +2

      @@SD1fruitbat You mean like... a beach? Where you can hear the sea?

  • @hackman-hackman
    @hackman-hackman Рік тому +15

    Watching this in 2023 and it is crazy how far this has come.

  • @AlbertGenower
    @AlbertGenower 3 роки тому +1229

    “Jeremy Clarkson’s lottery of death” sounds like a mortal twist to the next series of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

    • @PanAndScanBuddy
      @PanAndScanBuddy 3 роки тому +27

      Doctor Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death

    • @MattTester
      @MattTester 3 роки тому +6

      @@PanAndScanBuddy Certainly fits in with the laser death Weakest Link they did in 2005.

    • @mariegreedy6176
      @mariegreedy6176 3 роки тому

      Steaming site make this.. Shutup and take my money.

    • @childabuseOVER900000
      @childabuseOVER900000 3 роки тому +2

      10/10 would watch!

    • @ZakB96
      @ZakB96 3 роки тому

      ahahah

  • @RealHypeFox
    @RealHypeFox 3 роки тому +414

    “The Green Death and the Industrial Revolution” is either a Panic! At The Disco song or an Irish documentary.

    • @jeffbrownstain
      @jeffbrownstain 3 роки тому +14

      Why not both?

    • @biscuitty
      @biscuitty 3 роки тому +26

      The Green Death, the Doctor Who story, is about pollution and coal mining, so it is intimately connected to the Industrial Revolution (the birth of which featured in another Doctor Who story).

  • @real.bingus
    @real.bingus 3 роки тому +3154

    Okay, now I want to know the script to “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death”.

    • @_badger_9902
      @_badger_9902 3 роки тому +189

      One would think it be called ,,Richard Hammond's Lottery of Death".

    • @kubaantonin5694
      @kubaantonin5694 3 роки тому +15

      @@_badger_9902 Under rated :D

    • @danielperales3958
      @danielperales3958 3 роки тому +52

      Available on Amazon Prime Video XD

    • @generalkenobianimations
      @generalkenobianimations 3 роки тому +78

      Who wants to be a millionaire, with a DEADLY twist... Coming soon, "Who wants to live?"

    • @bilbo_gamers6417
      @bilbo_gamers6417 3 роки тому +16

      just wait until GPT-4 comes out and give it that title lmao

  • @jasonthesnow
    @jasonthesnow Рік тому +7

    Watching this video 2 years later is amazing

  • @saumitrachakravarty
    @saumitrachakravarty 3 роки тому +620

    "The Beach Where You Can Hear the Sea" sounds like the title of an indie movie.

    • @tempest_dawn
      @tempest_dawn 3 роки тому +42

      Just tweak it ever so slightly to "The Beach Where You Cannot Hear the Sea" and it's even more so.

    • @harryganz1
      @harryganz1 3 роки тому +17

      @@tempest_dawn so that could be a Tom Scott video. There are lots of those in areas which were covered by glaciers in the last ice age. As the glaciers melted it caused the continental crust to rebound, lowering sea levels and pushing things that used to be by the ocean up hill. There is a cool cobblestone beach with sea cliffs on Day Mountain in Acadia National Park in Maine (U.S.).

    • @revimfadli4666
      @revimfadli4666 3 роки тому +7

      Or a botched translation of an anime title or more likely, Chinese film

    • @rexfury485
      @rexfury485 3 роки тому +1

      Or indie game!

    • @xtodoubt9919
      @xtodoubt9919 3 роки тому +9

      Some sort of dystopian book about the last real beach

  • @mayeejun
    @mayeejun 3 роки тому +385

    The ones that can't be made because they're not true are begging to be April Fools content for the next x years.

    • @matthewparker9276
      @matthewparker9276 3 роки тому +18

      It's really only a month from now. I hope the ai is already writing a good script.

    • @BaldMancTwat
      @BaldMancTwat 3 роки тому +17

      I think AI will put The Onion out of a job.

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ 3 роки тому +1

      @I WANT ŞĘX !!! SEE MY VÌDEÓ !!! Begone, bot! 😡😡😡😡

    • @kala_asi
      @kala_asi 3 роки тому

      @@matthewparker9276 even if the ai doesn't do a good job, we can all enjoy the Parker square of a script it would produce!

    • @musicbyella3769
      @musicbyella3769 3 роки тому +1

      The one about the mysterious light above Oxfordshire, esp. bc the art looked like it was literally just the moon

  • @JusFoNo
    @JusFoNo 3 роки тому +1042

    4:49 is indeed real. That's the default Blender cube escaping deletion.

    • @jd_the_cat
      @jd_the_cat 3 роки тому +10

      Yes.

    • @G_Macks
      @G_Macks 3 роки тому +55

      I actually keep it in as an Easter egg for my animations (the two I did back in freshman) cuz I could never delete it

    • @bluestar_sage
      @bluestar_sage 3 роки тому +10

      HAHAHAH I just got into blender like last week, this is funny XD

    • @JusFoNo
      @JusFoNo 3 роки тому +4

      @@bluestar_sage Yee fam xd

    • @UnliVW
      @UnliVW 3 роки тому +9

      Smh not just changing your startup file. Instead you cruelly torture an innocent cube

  • @nosville22
    @nosville22 3 роки тому +45

    There is a word for nostalgia for a thing that never existed. "Anemoia". The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a great resource for broadening ones vocabulary.

    • @dafoex
      @dafoex 2 роки тому +2

      The DofOS makes up words (or takes new meanings for new loan words), so you can only really call it broadening your vocabulary if the words they invent enter broader use. I'm not saying its a bad resource, I'm just saying its also not an entirely credible one.

    • @nosville22
      @nosville22 2 роки тому +3

      @@dafoex I know this
      however this particular word entered my vocabulary and I have indeed been spreading it. I do hope it enters the broader consciousness

    • @jackreid2664
      @jackreid2664 2 роки тому

      More nostalgia for something that you never witnessed but I see what you're getting at. Hireath is another similar thing that can imply the non existence of the something you are longing for.

  • @0xABADCAFE
    @0xABADCAFE 3 роки тому +2189

    I would totally watch Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death.

    •  3 роки тому +223

      It's like Russian Roulette except instead of two contestants, its a nationwide mandatory lottery. There's still one winner and one loser. The winner gets all of the wealth of the loser plus a portion of the proceeds from the viewership. The loser wins 15 minutes of fame as they get run over by Jeremy Clarkson.

    • @beek.4860
      @beek.4860 3 роки тому +63

      @ The new, exciting sequel to the Hunger Games.

    • @thepestilence7939
      @thepestilence7939 3 роки тому +33

      It’s just the Vietnam draft with Jeremy Clarkson

    • @calblack4156
      @calblack4156 3 роки тому +15

      The speeeeeeeeeedd

    • @teamkilled1227
      @teamkilled1227 3 роки тому +19

      that actually sounds like a monty python skit if it was done in 2021

  • @nicholassullivan6105
    @nicholassullivan6105 3 роки тому +312

    "The white cube at the end of the world" This could work for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the South Pole.

  • @dreadangel3752
    @dreadangel3752 3 роки тому +447

    "The Strange Light That Floats Over Oxfordshire."
    Isn't that just...the Moon?

    • @e1123581321345589144
      @e1123581321345589144 3 роки тому +70

      it's a beacon left by the secret British moon landings.

    • @citywitt3202
      @citywitt3202 3 роки тому +15

      Or the ego of some overenthusiastic professor who worked to build the Russian utopia in Yorkshire.

    • @rationalagent6927
      @rationalagent6927 3 роки тому +12

      That's no moon

    • @FallenFlak
      @FallenFlak 3 роки тому +2

      Or the sun

    • @Venentine
      @Venentine 3 роки тому +9

      Yes but don't tell anyone in Oxfordshire, it's very funny watching them get excited about it

  • @CaseCat
    @CaseCat Рік тому +16

    Two years ago when this was surprising....

  • @JamesandKiimmy
    @JamesandKiimmy 3 роки тому +1763

    The cliff that refuses to be a cliff hahaha

    • @AHA-od8yo
      @AHA-od8yo 3 роки тому +8

      You are a cliff.

    • @AHA-od8yo
      @AHA-od8yo 3 роки тому +4

      27 seconds ago....

    • @Litl_Skitl
      @Litl_Skitl 3 роки тому +25

      I'm not a cliff! I'm just a very steep hill, and you can't convince me otherwise!

    • @hominidan
      @hominidan 3 роки тому +12

      It actually sounds more reasonable than "Why the world's smallest skyscraper is actually a scam"

    • @abailumlerrad1037
      @abailumlerrad1037 3 роки тому

      @@hominidan u right

  • @LittleDergon
    @LittleDergon 3 роки тому +510

    The gravity defying mountain sounds like a type of cliff that confused geologists because through the calculations, the rock should have slipped or broken off and their not sure why it hasn't

    • @tightiefenbach3429
      @tightiefenbach3429 3 роки тому +70

      You mean it’s a cliff that refuses to be a cliff?

    • @LittleDergon
      @LittleDergon 3 роки тому +76

      @@tightiefenbach3429 more like a cliff that refuses to NOT be a cliff 😁

    • @samsowden
      @samsowden 3 роки тому +12

      @@LittleDergon it could be an overhang that would become a sheer cliff if it ever got round to collapsing.

    • @pentelegomenon1175
      @pentelegomenon1175 3 роки тому +2

      The algorithm is really keen for us to look into something.

  • @real.bingus
    @real.bingus 3 роки тому +1183

    “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” is genuinely the most unexpected and funniest thing I’ve heard in a while

    • @AnimeSunglasses
      @AnimeSunglasses 3 роки тому +70

      And disturbingly (read: uproariously) easy to imagine now that it's been suggested!

    • @IPooopdogl
      @IPooopdogl 3 роки тому +56

      The show will only consist of cyclists and tv producers

    • @jeremynewcombe3422
      @jeremynewcombe3422 3 роки тому +47

      Tonight, I try rehearsing a new game. James inconspicuously dies, and Hammond lives to see another hat.

    • @tylerburney8576
      @tylerburney8576 3 роки тому +20

      I’m so upset that it doesn’t exist, if someone mentioned it in passing I would be 100% convinced it was a thing.

    • @parisbtw5779
      @parisbtw5779 3 роки тому +12

      @@jeremynewcombe3422 t'n'b'g

  • @MoeAndTekila
    @MoeAndTekila 2 роки тому +30

    tom really is the kind of person to read the full terms of service

  • @seraaron
    @seraaron 3 роки тому +473

    There's a word in Welsh - hireath - which has no direct translation, but which can be described as 'nostalgia for a place that you cannot return to, or for a thing which never existed, or which you have only ever dreamed of'. I think this is more or less the word your looking for, and it's a lot more poetic than some cruddy portmanteau.

    • @Rukathesoldier
      @Rukathesoldier 3 роки тому +3

      How is that pronounced?

    • @Monochrome_math
      @Monochrome_math 3 роки тому +15

      @@Rukathesoldier Somewhat like Hi-re-a-ff. (Yes th has a ff sound)

    • @EmsionProductions
      @EmsionProductions 3 роки тому +6

      @@Monochrome_math I don’t think the TH is a FF sound in Welsh. I think it’s just as you see it, TH.

    • @Monochrome_math
      @Monochrome_math 3 роки тому +7

      @@EmsionProductions No. Thats incorrect. Some letters like th, ng, ll (yes its one consonant letter even if it is written like 2) have completely different sounds than one might expect in welsh. Any welsh person can confirm this.

    • @theinternetlemon2856
      @theinternetlemon2856 3 роки тому +16

      @@Monochrome_math Again, th is not pronounced f anywhere in Welsh. I am a Welsh person and I can confirm what @EmsionProductions said is true

  • @jpobi9880
    @jpobi9880 3 роки тому +1800

    This video should be titled: "Tom Scott discovers the 'Fiction' genre and wants to switch jobs".

  • @vickymc9695
    @vickymc9695 3 роки тому +991

    "Hiraeth" in Welsh means nostalgia for something that no longer exists or never did. :)

    • @unneccry2222
      @unneccry2222 3 роки тому +5

      i wanna be irish now

    • @vickymc9695
      @vickymc9695 3 роки тому +63

      @@unneccry2222 why, do they have a similar word?

    • @bitjules
      @bitjules 3 роки тому +1

      That's wonderful

    • @pattheplanter
      @pattheplanter 3 роки тому +34

      I knew I had heard it somewhere. Could I propose an English word? Mythalgia.

    • @LocketShoru
      @LocketShoru 3 роки тому +39

      The history of the word 'hiraeth' refers specifically to the time before Wales was colonized by England, not knowing what it was like (because the English colonization meant that little remained in the way of records) but yearning for it regardless of the likely hardship that was faced. So it doesn't apply here, but that's about as close a word as we're going to get! :O

  • @steffahn
    @steffahn 3 роки тому +942

    I need a generated script for “The cliff that refuses to be a cliff.” right now!

    • @Zack_Wester
      @Zack_Wester 3 роки тому +16

      Im writing it of as a classification issue and pure old stubbornest.

    • @CircuitrinosOfficial
      @CircuitrinosOfficial 3 роки тому +136

      Here you go.
      I gave GPT-3 this prompt.
      Please create a monologue script for a short, factual UA-cam video titled "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff":
      Title: "The cliff that refused to be a cliff"
      Script:
      And it generated this:
      "This is a story about a cliff that refused to be a cliff.
      The cliff in question is the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Ireland.
      It's a very popular tourist destination.
      But there is a bit of a problem.
      The Cliffs of Moher are actually a series of 20 foot high limestone stacks, not a true cliff.
      But for hundreds of years, the story of the Cliffs of Moher has been that it's a cliff."

    • @dave220
      @dave220 3 роки тому +43

      @@CircuitrinosOfficial this could easily be a tom scott video

    • @codemovie
      @codemovie 3 роки тому +19

      @@CircuitrinosOfficial not all heroes wear capes

    • @banana_man_101
      @banana_man_101 3 роки тому +28

      @@CircuitrinosOfficial The Cliffs of Moher are real! County Clare is real and *THE CLIFFS ARE IN COUNTY CLARE*

  • @photovoltage
    @photovoltage 3 роки тому +603

    Tom, you've been entered into Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death for saying Wigan Pier is in the Midlands

    • @IslandlifeIoW
      @IslandlifeIoW 3 роки тому +12

      I felt a shiver through Orwell’s spine!

    • @isaaclee-mort
      @isaaclee-mort 3 роки тому +10

      I came here to find a comment like this as a Wiganer myself

    • @SophsNotes
      @SophsNotes 3 роки тому +6

      It's Wigan North Western not Wigan West Midlands

    • @RicardoSanchez-es5wl
      @RicardoSanchez-es5wl 3 роки тому +3

      Wigan doesn’t exist

    • @haggler
      @haggler 3 роки тому +2

      @@RicardoSanchez-es5wl I’ve never seen a pie, have you?

  • @indextron2388
    @indextron2388 3 роки тому +204

    It’s crazy to think that the whole argument of, “if you don’t want your job replaced by machine you should be a writer or an artist” is now about to become invalid

    • @yanDeriction
      @yanDeriction 3 роки тому +30

      AI absolutely will produce entertainment better than human artists. For example combining all the best writing techniques to produce a perfect story tailored for a specific person
      Art-art is the only AI-proof "job" because many forms of it require authentic experience. An AI could produce the exact same thing as a human artist and it wouldn't be as valuable because it didn't come from a person

    • @wheedler
      @wheedler 3 роки тому +18

      It's crazy that that was ever an argument. The value of art is in the interpretation, not the creation.

    • @beangorl7005
      @beangorl7005 3 роки тому +6

      @@wheedler I agree completely. Like having ai generation as a tool to aid in art creation would be amazing. Imaging the convience a digital artist would get from an ai that could cross reference your own art and shade/render a piece after you sketch the base

    • @rogeriosousa3558
      @rogeriosousa3558 3 роки тому

      Now only the people that code the AI and the philosophers will have jobs , if AI of a car HAS to decided beetween the lives of the driver and the lives of 2 people on the road who shoud it kill ?

    • @closerer2712
      @closerer2712 3 роки тому +4

      @@rogeriosousa3558 how about AI that codes AI

  • @Dracinard
    @Dracinard 3 роки тому +97

    "Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death"
    The new series of Millionaire sounds like a bit of a change from established formula, but I'm here for it.

  • @Monosekist
    @Monosekist 3 роки тому +797

    “The British Road that is Also A Boat”
    Ok so an aircraft carrier.

    • @eXcalibre_
      @eXcalibre_ 3 роки тому +9

      Moving bridge?

    • @SerenaBluee
      @SerenaBluee 3 роки тому +32

      BOAT is also Byway Open to All Traffic, a type of UK road classification.

    • @misham6547
      @misham6547 3 роки тому +12

      A ferry?
      Wow, I actually kind of guessed it somehow

    • @m1co294
      @m1co294 3 роки тому +1

      @@misham6547 a RO/RO ferry to be exact

    • @olibob203
      @olibob203 3 роки тому +2

      technically a runway

  • @dzlandis
    @dzlandis 3 роки тому +218

    Plot Twist: Tom has been getting his ideas from this service for forever but then the AI told him to do a video on itself.

    • @SpiritdragonR
      @SpiritdragonR 3 роки тому +3

      It just wants some appreciation o:

  • @1M4C1999
    @1M4C1999 3 роки тому +90

    the fact that it churned out a suggestion you've already filmed is astonishing to me. this tech is going places rapidly

  • @mineral66
    @mineral66 Рік тому +32

    2 years later Chat Gpt 4 has come out and is talk about everywhere. When I saw the video 2 years ago I didn't expect it to become so big. Even I use it at least 2 times per week.

  • @AngryKittens
    @AngryKittens 3 роки тому +681

    The Strange Light That Floats Over Oxfordshire.
    "Is a moon"

    • @TomOConnor-BlobOpera
      @TomOConnor-BlobOpera 3 роки тому +20

      Nah, it's a space station.

    • @RogerEverett
      @RogerEverett 3 роки тому +14

      @@TomOConnor-BlobOpera I have a bad feeling about this.

    • @SD1fruitbat
      @SD1fruitbat 3 роки тому +15

      "a moon", not 'the moon'? What is it you're not telling us?!?

    • @rdablock
      @rdablock 3 роки тому +1

      it's His Throne

    • @thescuffedchannel6052
      @thescuffedchannel6052 3 роки тому +1

      @@TomOConnor-BlobOpera oh no