First Look Gnomes
Two Dads doing Silly Things.
About First Look Gnomes
Welcome to First Look Gnomes – your all-access pass to quirky insights, unexpected discoverables, and offbeat humour that makes learning fun. Hosted by "Walliams" (broadcasting from the bottom of his garden in Cornwall, England) and Mr Hodgkiss (sharing stories straight from his Garden in Belfast, Northern Ireland), this podcast blends random yet fascinating trivia with genuine, heart-warming dad-jokes and thought-provoking conversation.
Twice a month, these two dads dive into topics that range from historical oddities and bizarre cultural titbits to contemporary curiosities and everyday marvels.
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First Look Gnomes
First Look: Battersea Power Station Revamp + Google I/O 2025 Highlights
In this episode of First Look Gnomes, we explore the stunning transformation of Battersea Power Station in London and break down the biggest announcements from Google I/O 2025 — including AI, Android 15, and Gemini updates.
- Battersea Power Station redevelopment
- Google I/O 2025 announcements
- AI features from Google
- Things to do near Battersea
Google I/O 2025, Battersea Power Station, London architecture, tech news, AI, Android 15
We explore Battersea Power Station's impressive transformation into a high-end shopping destination with historical features preserved and Google's revolutionary technological advancements at their I/O 2025 keynote.
• Battersea Power Station has been revamped into a luxury shopping mall while preserving original architectural elements
• The Power Station includes over 150 shops, bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues
• One of the chimneys houses a glass viewing deck offering panoramic views of London
• Google Beam creates 3D video calls with multiple camera angles for more immersive conversations
• Google's AI filmmaking tool can generate professional-quality videos from simple prompts and images
• Gemini 2.5 Pro with Deep Think offers enhanced reasoning capabilities for more accurate responses
• Google's smart glasses can provide real-time translation during conversations
• Our podcast mysteriously ranks #2 for "tropical fruits" searches on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
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First Look Battersea Power Station Revamp plus Google I-0-2025 Highlights.
Mr Hodgkiss:Welcome to First Look Gnomes.
Walliams:Your go-to podcast for dads doing silly things.
Mr Hodgkiss:But, most importantly, we're here to share our first looks.
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Mr Hodgkiss:And share your thoughts, questions and own first looks with us at firstlookgnomesatoutlookcom known first looks with us at first.
Walliams:Look gnomes at outlookcom. Yo, listen up. Here's a story about a little gnome that lives in a two world and all day and all night and everything he sees is episode two. Like him inside and outside. Number two is his house with the two little windows and two corvettes, and everything is in two for him and himself and everybody around, because he ain't got nobody to listen to series four episode two.
Mr Hodgkiss:I've got to admit when he started that, when he went yo, I thought I was going to do a vanilla ice wrap Yo collaborate and listen. No, no, I wasn't expecting it to go to iPool.
Walliams:Is it iPool 65, iPool 95,? Their?
Mr Hodgkiss:version of Blue.
Walliams:That's one of the signs of success if you actually know what it was To dab-a-dee-dab-a-dee, their version of Blue.
Mr Hodgkiss:That's always a sign of success if you actually know what it was.
Walliams:So um to dabba, dee, dabba yeah dabba dee or for the for the younger listeners out there, uh, calvin Harris probably isn't it oh, did he?
Mr Hodgkiss:he sampled that recently, didn't he? Yeah?
Walliams:yeah, but nobody knew that it was a well. The youngsters didn't know it was a An original song that was taken from the 90s. By the French? Was it the French?
Mr Hodgkiss:Eiffel, 65.
Walliams:Eiffel would probably give it away, I should presume.
Mr Hodgkiss:You would imagine so. Good effort, william, good effort.
Walliams:How are your two weeks?
Mr Hodgkiss:It's been more chaos, more craziness, more chaos. But I'm still here.
Walliams:More Fortnite playing, I'm still standing.
Mr Hodgkiss:Oh, too much Fortnite playing Too. I'm still here. More Fortnite playing. I'm still standing. Oh, too much Fortnite playing. Too much Fortnite playing. Arguments about Fortnite, discussions about.
Walliams:Fortnite oh dear.
Mr Hodgkiss:It's actually made our house quite angry. It needs to stop. It needs to stop, I just want my child to reverse his age. He's getting older. I want him to get younger, not older. I don't like older kids.
Walliams:They make it challenging. As we found out on the last episode, the firsty-firsts are no more at the bottom of the pond. We've got firsty. We've got first bites Pints and first bites Pints and first bites Pints give me a pee Pints and first bites Pints and first bites Pints, Pints. Give me a P Pints and first bites, and I brought a beer, so I'm going to go in. I wasn't going to do this originally, but I'm going to do the beer.
Walliams:I think that might be my favourite kind of introduction to anything, because we all said it Pints and first bites Pints and first bites Pints and first bites. And on today's Pints and first bites Pints and first bites Pints and first bites we have this is a Brew York juice forsyth Ooh, and it's got a little image there of may he rest in peace, Bruce Forsyth for the silhouette of Bruce Forsyth there. Brie York 5% Pineapple Forsyth, Pineapple mango tropical fruit explosion. Yeah, no, thank you. There you go, and there's a little diagram at the back and it's there you go. You've got your rating of hot fruit, sweet, mouthfeel, bitter and malt and it's more fruit and sweet there you go alright so another.
Walliams:Oh dear pints and fuzz bags.
Mr Hodgkiss:Pints and fuzz so listeners, if you miss firsty firsts.
Walliams:Please write in and I'll happily replace pints and first bites with firsty firsts. The listeners didn't want firsty firsts anymore, so we've now got pints and first bites.
Mr Hodgkiss:He's such an idiot, there we go Brew York juice Forsyth.
Walliams:it's a fruited IPA Juice.
Mr Hodgkiss:Forsyth Sure, then give us the verdict Cheers.
Walliams:It smells.
Mr Hodgkiss:It smells Just what you want when you're beer.
Walliams:Yeah, it smells. It smells like you know when you get that drain back draft sometimes.
Mr Hodgkiss:See, I'm telling you, Williams, avoid all these fruity, crappy beers. Like you know, the Fruit rots. I'm not sure what it says.
Walliams:Good game, good game. Do you want to go higher? Then enjoy this juicy, bonus fruited IPA that combines Cascade, citra, columbus and Mosaic hops with Mootshox, pineapple and Mango for a tropical explosion as bold and juicy as a legendary entertainer. This salutes Nice to see you, to see you.
Mr Hodgkiss:And just to repeat what one of them said when he opened it it smells. So you know, that's probably all we need to know about that one.
Walliams:I'm sure my breath does so. The wife of my wife is a lucky lady. When I finish this podcast, Absolutely. Pints of us bites. Pints of us bites.
Mr Hodgkiss:Moving on. Where are we going next, Matt? Where are we going next?
Walliams:We're going next. We're going sorry, so we're going to grab your rod. I'm not going to grab your rod, to grab your rod.
Mr Hodgkiss:I'm not going to grab your rod.
Walliams:You can. We're not going to grab any rods.
Mr Hodgkiss:We're grabbing each other's rods.
Walliams:We'll grab our own rods.
Mr Hodgkiss:Okay.
Walliams:And we're going to swing it into the pond. Okay, and see if we've got any feedback.
Mr Hodgkiss:Let's go.
Walliams:Let's go Fish. Pond of feedback.
Mr Hodgkiss:Feedback Not as good as pints and first bites.
Walliams:A little update. So I found out, got a little update from the. So, in terms of search engine optimization, not much going on with the website because we don't have one.
Mr Hodgkiss:There is no website. Yeah, it's being built.
Walliams:I have had some stats updates with a little peek on um apple podcasts or spotify, so this is when people will specifically search on podcasts as opposed to google or whatever yeah, um, maybe I'll give you three guesses.
Walliams:So there's two words, a phrase, not a phrase. Two words that people search that we've actually appeared as number two. Oh, so, when people put these two words in at the same time, not separately. So these two words, uh-uh, we come up as number two on the Spotify and Apple or podcasts okay, so it's gotta be gnomes, right?
Mr Hodgkiss:no, you'd imagine, like first gnomes, that's the only way people can find us no two idiots. I don't really understand how it all works. Okay, so is Two idiots.
Walliams:I don't really understand how it all works, but Okay, so is it.
Mr Hodgkiss:Two idiots, dad, stupid dads. No, thirsty first, you're not going to get it. You're not going to get it. So.
Walliams:Tropical fruits so.
Mr Hodgkiss:What? Because you're a bloody beer, isn't it? Because you're a tropical, shitty beer.
Walliams:Well, maybe actually Of course it is.
Mr Hodgkiss:You just opened a can of Brew Forsyth. Yeah, actually I did Tropical fruits tropical fruits, beer, fruit, tropical fruits.
Walliams:So a few weeks ago, if someone typed in tropical fruits on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, we would come up as number two on the list.
Mr Hodgkiss:Interesting.
Walliams:There you go. Come up as number two on the list. Interesting, there you go. Uh, also, um, we came up as number two someone typed in agriculture in asia, of course, obviously and apparently result number four.
Mr Hodgkiss:Someone typed in children's television well, I mean well children's tv, yeah I can get that one. And on the last episode we did discuss matcha, matcha, kit kats, you know yeah, that's not released yet. So well, it is now, but it wasn't that point of recording oh, possibly, yeah, all right, well, who knows, who knows, the internet works in mysterious ways it does.
Walliams:They're always listening.
Mr Hodgkiss:Yeah, so that means our listeners are people that are probably looking for tropical fruits, agriculture in asia or children's television so we do have a spoiler alert there that we don't have a website, but we also, so I should have done this. My working pattern has changed slightly, so I should have more time, and I will. I will get the website built this year, that is the goal get some blogs going get some pictures of kit kats
Mr Hodgkiss:blogs about agriculture in asia dad jokes we can, we can actually do it. We can actually do a marketing plan by it's. How are we going to take?
Walliams:over this podcast. We could. We've almost succeeded in laos almost next.
Mr Hodgkiss:Yeah, where next is right, we'll decide. The moon we're still going for the moon. We didn't. We're still. We didn't hit the.
Walliams:We're still going for the moon. We didn't hit that, didn't we? No, we didn't hit the moon, so we're still going for that.
Mr Hodgkiss:We should have spent, but that brings us on to new listeners.
Walliams:So in series one or two, probably two, we yeah, probably series two we never had any listeners from Africa. I mean, we didn't have any listeners at all, but we had listeners. We had at least one listener in each continent apart from africa. But then we did and sees three, we've got a listener in cairo and then we've had a few since then and we've had another one today. So we've got a new listener from freetown western area in sierra leone oh very good, so welcome new listener from there.
Walliams:Another new listener from basingstoke, hampshire nice another new listener from brent and another new listener from ho chi minh city oh very good welcome, and that's vietnam, so good morning good morning.
Mr Hodgkiss:More people in vietnam, we are, we're big. We're big in Nam.
Walliams:Oh, and that's it. No one's written in, so please write in to firstsandnomescom or DM on the Instagram or however else you want to get in contact.
Mr Hodgkiss:Plenty of ways. Once we get the website up, we're going to take over the world. Once we get the website down.
Walliams:Yeah exactly, First looks, Mr Oshkiss. Okay, yeah, exactly.
Mr Hodgkiss:First looks for Trogkos. Okay, so I do have. Well, I have a. You know what I was struggling? I was like, right, I've got so many different things. Since we last recorded, so many different things have happened. So I got a few looks. I did this last year. I did talk about the Chelsea Flower Show, which is always a highlight of the year for us gardeners and us horticultural people. We just had a little look at. We went to a John Williams night. We took Brayden to his first orchestra. I sound very posh.
Walliams:Yes, yes, talk about a show.
Mr Hodgkiss:We went to the orchestra, but we took him to see the music of John Williams at the theatre, so like saw the Jurassic Park and the Superman theme His first experience with an orchestra, which was pretty, would like say anyone who who has ever um, anyone who's a fan of movie, music like the star wars theme the harry potter music I mean john williams, he's got to be the best in terms of absolute legend.
Walliams:Yeah, like legend.
Mr Hodgkiss:Yeah, so like the whole orchestra. There was a big orchestra like 60, 70 people in the orchestra playing like the Superman theme, the Indiana Jones theme, the Jurassic Park music, the Harry Potter music and it was just incredible. Star Wars, star Wars I bought these tickets months ago so we were like in the third row, which was great. So you're like right at the foot of the orchestra and it's just brilliant and brain loved it. So that was good. Um, so go and see your local orchestra. You get like tickets was cheap. We got like brain steel was like a tenner or something.
Mr Hodgkiss:It was dirt cheap yeah, good so cheap good night out, um, but yeah, we went to. We went out to london recently, london town london town, yeah, yeah.
Mr Hodgkiss:So I'm going to do a first look at new areas of London. So back in the day the wife and I met in London. We used to live in London. We now don't. But it's always nice going back because there's that feeling of nostalgia and familiarity. But when I went for a friend's 40th birthday surprise 40th birthday party, but on the Friday, so we said we spent some time, um, we lived. I lived in streatham and we did clapham for a bit and we did when the wife and I got together, we lived in wilmington for a bit.
Mr Hodgkiss:So we're kind of in that south area of london, um, and they were. They were regenerating battersea power station, so we went to explore. Now it's all finished. We went went to explore Battersea Power Station and what it's got to offer, so I'm going to just open up what does that offer?
Mr Hodgkiss:Discover London's most exciting new shopping and leisure destination at the iconic Great Two List in Battersea Power Station. This legendary London landmark and surrounding area has been brought back to life as one of the most exciting and innovative mixed-use neighborhoods in the world. A place for locals, tourists and residents to enjoy a unique blend of over 150 shops, bars, restaurants, leisure and entertainment venues, parks and historical spaces. A place to shop, eat, drink, live, work and play. Life here doesn't feel ordinary, it feels extraordinary. So we were like, let's go and check it out. Um, so we went and I've written, I've made some notes while I was thinking about the thing. So we left our hotel and do you know the first thing we saw? So our hotel was by the oval cricket ground and the first thing we saw Claire Balding. Oh, and I can't stand Claire Balding. So the wife said is that Claire Balding?
Walliams:I was like yes, it is no.
Mr Hodgkiss:Leslie Anne was like yes, it is selfie. No, I don't, leslie. I was like why don't you go and tell her what you think of?
Walliams:her. I was like yeah, don't like you, claire, balding if she came up to you or said hello, you'd be like, oh yeah, love your work, love your way no, I would have absolutely said I don't really think very much of you.
Mr Hodgkiss:You're a poor man's hazel irvine um.
Walliams:I've got your love of Hazel.
Mr Hodgkiss:Irvine. Hazel's a proper, proper sports reporter. But for some reason Claire Boulding and Gabby Logan get all the love. Two women I can't stand, but Hazel, what a proper sports reporter. Oh, gabby's all right. No, she's annoying, as anyway. Subjectively, she annoys the annoys the snot out. The noise is not out of me, but so does clear boarding.
Mr Hodgkiss:So we went, we headed from the Kia Oval over to Battersea Power Station and I'm telling you it was like wow, this is incredible. So it reminded me of like Vancouver and Chicago and like those kind of American kind of areas. So the power station itself, it's quite impressive when you're close to it. And they've turned inside of the power station into like a high-end shopping mall, so lots of really quite nice brands, but they've kept a lot of the historical features of it.
Mr Hodgkiss:So you've got this big, big-ass shopping mall full of lovely things and great architecture and it's just like. It's quite like wow, it's just like. It's quite like wow, this it's just really impressive, really impressive when you go in there. Um, and they've got, um, they built all new flats around it, so there's loads of restaurants and bars and in one of the chimneys. So if you don't know about superstation, it's an old power station and in the four chimneys one of the chimneys they've got like um, a viewing deck so you can go up the chimney and it takes you to the top of the chimney where there's like a glass aren't you a bit funny of heights?
Mr Hodgkiss:oh, I'm terrified of heights, yeah, but it's still there. You can go and do it.
Walliams:I just refused to do it. No, no, I didn't, I refused to.
Mr Hodgkiss:Let's now want to do it and I was like nope, not for me but it's, it's an amazing thing that you can do so we. We looked at it from down the bottom and I was just like I don't like the look of that at all.
Mr Hodgkiss:So you go up the chimney and inside of the chimney there's all lights and this stuff and you go like up, um, I think it's like 100 and something odd meters and there's just a glass ring. So we could see people doing it from down below and I just thought that looks really odd, but still magnificent and cool, like we went to where we can get on it and we're looking at. I was like that looks brilliant. And, leslie, I was like no, I don't want to go up there if you're gonna have a panic attack, um, and I watched one of the youtube videos of someone doing it. I was like nope, not for me, but if you're into that kind of thing, all very good. Uh, but we did.
Walliams:We went and got some food I'm not gonna go up there if you're gonna have a panic attack it was yes.
Mr Hodgkiss:She was like I don't really want to go up there and you not enjoy it. That was more of what she was saying but like we tried a few things, so like we went to a poke house, which was pretty cool, and got some food, we tried house like a poke house to get like a poke bowl. Have you seen these things?
Mr Hodgkiss:a poke house to get a poke bowl yeah, like it's a no, not, it's just call it a poke. It's like you can get, like it's like rice and salmon and edamame okay, it's just.
Mr Hodgkiss:It's just a very fancy salad kind of bowl, but it was really nice. We tried blank street coffee, which I've heard about, lots about, and it was rubbish. I was massively disappointed with blank street coffee. Um, the coffee was street, blank street coffee. Yeah, the coffee was street, blank street coffee. Yeah, the service was terrible. The people in there were all I don't know, just not my type of people no and, uh, the coffee was really not very nice.
Mr Hodgkiss:We did go to vinci ice cream and leslie ann said it was the best haze on ice cream she's had in her life. I've never been to vent. She, uh, I didn't have any, but leslie ann did and she was blown away. Um, but then one of the things I did do, which was right on my knee, went to the battersea brewery. So they did a brewery there and I did a couple of those taster bowls I had like pints and bites.
Walliams:I tried those bites.
Mr Hodgkiss:I did right, I I rate I ranked. I had eight different beers and ranked them all and I thought I'm not going to bore everybody with it, but they were mostly nice.
Walliams:Right, because it's just a recording. She got the old voice notes out.
Mr Hodgkiss:Well, I took some pictures for the website that we're going to do, and one of their stouts.
Walliams:I look forward to seeing those in 2040.
Mr Hodgkiss:Their stout was incredible, and it just so happened as well, williams, that this was the same day we were in Battersea, the same in London, the same day as the Empire Strips back, hey, which you had told us about before. Yes, sadly we ran out of time so I was unable to attend.
Walliams:The Empire Strips back.
Mr Hodgkiss:Yeah, we were going to go, but we just thought better not.
Walliams:It's getting good reviews apparently Is it so?
Mr Hodgkiss:Williams, Is it getting?
Walliams:good reviews, is it so, have my mate told me? How would you know? Are you looking up the reviews?
Mr Hodgkiss:So a friend of mine told me yeah, Jabba the cock, but no Battersea Power.
Walliams:Station.
Mr Hodgkiss:London was just like I was. I was very impressed, so well worth a visit. So Battersea Power Station in London. Battersea Power Station and London's just still fun. It's such a great day, yeah so that was my first look at Williams. What about yourself? What have you got for us today? Obviously I prepare for these, these recordings but the weeks you spent preparing for these podcasts.
Walliams:Today was the first before, but I just reminded myself of the. So I looked at the keynote. This is a bit geeky. I looked at the keynote speaking event of Google IO. So Google basically announced all the good, crazy things they're doing and it blew my mind. It blew my mind was to arch Kiss.
Mr Hodgkiss:Okay, you blown away by some of that happened in 2020, 12 by Google.
Walliams:Well, yes, yes, I've, I'm only just getting used to the Google mic search, as listeners will know. So Google they today. Um, you know a big, you know a big announcement, as they do. Um, these are the amazing things that we've got in the, the pipeline and etc. Etc. Um, so a few things they've got. So Google Beam.
Mr Hodgkiss:Oh, what's this?
Walliams:Google Beam. So it is a revolutionary 3D video cause. So, basically, with your webcam, rather than one webcam, your special monitors you have will have webcams on the left, right and center, et cetera, so it gets basically camera views from all angles and then it just makes you as a more 3d version of yourself to the person. So when you're actually talking to yourself um well, you're not talking to yourself, talking to the other person um, it's like they're actually in the room a bit more so it's, you know, a bit more 3d involved.
Walliams:Um, I'm sure at some point they'll hologram it in depth, yeah, but more depth. Um, which I was like oh, wow. And then putnam was like quite often I wear like unironed shirts to webcam things and I can get away with it because the webcam is here. It's not fully high definition, I can get away with it, you know. Um, it's not in person, whereas you know this google beam is going to make things a lot more realistic. So it's going to be like you're actually having meetings with people in the room okay so you got that going on.
Walliams:Um, then you've got a combination of uh, what they called um vo3, video generation and flow. So basically, ai filmmaking tool okay um, and what I saw?
Walliams:ah, this next level sort of stuff. So with this tool, right, you've got a photo of a crazy old man, you've got a photo of a nice looking car, old car. Upload these photos, stick in a prompt Crazy old man driving a car down a desert towards the Grand Canyon Video creation of this happening. Add a prompt our man driving a car down a desert towards a grand canyon video creation of this happening. Add a prompt oh, a 15 foot size chickens in the back bomb chicken. Add some music. There's a I can't remember what it was called now, but there's another google music creation thing. Add some atmospheric music, john Williams style, and it just created this whole sort of video three minute video of this man that gets in his car. That is created with a chicken and it flies off in the canyon. The chicken takes his car off and it's just a good. You know you could a professional advert that you would see now you could create in like two minutes.
Mr Hodgkiss:So, like the John Lewis Christmas advert is usually budgeted between like four and seven million and it takes six months to produce, if you've now got the right idea you're saying you could effectively make a john lewis christmas advert in ii on your own in a couple of days.
Walliams:I mean it did. It did go from two professional looking photos. So it depends, I suppose, where you get those photos from it's crazy, crazy world. And then, um uh, a mixture. So there's gemini, the Google Gemini AI business going on.
Mr Hodgkiss:Gemini 2.5.
Walliams:Pro with deep think, so basically, enhance reasoning mode for more accurate responses. And they were shown examples of. You know this woman using the, the camera on a phone and, yeah, videoing her shadow, and ask, gemini, there's someone following me, what's going on? And then the Gemini just goes nope, that is your shadow. Or pointing towards, oh, what's this new sports car? And it goes nope, that's the garbage truck, wow, or rubbish truck, as it would be in England. Or what's this, what's this new building?
Walliams:and they go nope, that's a light pole or a lamppost yeah, the reasoning is getting quicker and it's just, and it's just like yeah, just, isn't it corrects the person going nope, so here's the question, though walsh, right, so we, we've used I use ai a fair bit. Now you know it's, it's become part of my routine, my daily routine I can see it the way it's going, what we're doing now, there's still basic level to what it could be.
Mr Hodgkiss:Yeah, well it's gonna just keep going and going in it, you know yeah, but it's gonna well that's, you know like the whole terminate to your thing in Skynet and ends up destroying all humans. You know that's, that's gonna be the race, isn't it? You know? How do you, how do you use this technology to help you make decision, important, critical decisions as a tool.
Walliams:It as a tool, um, it's a bit like uh, what's that film called?
Walliams:jennifer lopez did a film recently yeah, but basically, ai is like a co-pilot not to steal the microsoft version of it, but you use it as a tool as opposed to it's doing stuff on its own, so it's as a but? Um, there's another thing from the google. Um, io keynote thing was, uh, what's it called? Uh, android xr. So basically with the smart glasses. So the smart glasses, oh yeah, the gemini powered um to do live translation. So you wear these glasses and you could go abroad somewhere and someone else. With these android glasses, you can have a conversation in your own language.
Mr Hodgkiss:But it just translates, explained, it says it translates the whole lot.
Walliams:That's crazy, um. And then also, you know you've got your google maps but you've got your glasses on. You can go. I'd like to go to the coffee shop in lovely and you can walk along with these glasses and it's just taking you to the place and they won't be long before you know. Those glasses link up with your, your gemini 2.5 pro deep think stuff, and it's like you could just ask questions and stuff, go what is? Yeah, what is that? And just have a conversation with the eyes. Yeah, it's. We're not far away from some really crazy stuff well, we use like at home.
Mr Hodgkiss:So let me go because we use chat, gbt, but I know, gemini is getting better and better, and I've got gemini's free as well, like I pay to use chat gbt, but like today.
Mr Hodgkiss:So me and brain were talking to chat gbt. Let me go. What did we ask you? Here's an example. Goes back to a previous podcast about fortnite. Brain purchased a skin in fortnite and it's no longer in his locker. So fortnight, brain purchase a skin in fortnight and it's no longer in his locker. So I said we're both skinning fortnight and I've changed my skin and my old one's not there, but I paid for it. How do we use it? So we talked to it. He said gave us a perfect example of what we need to do and he just used it as like okay, I've got a problem, what do? What's the best thing to do? And like it's. It's mad really how quickly you can find the answer. I use it with like web design and stuff and that's all.
Walliams:That's all text-based. But this new Gemini pro stuff linked with now, this was voice based, so this is me like talking, like you know, having a conversation with it yeah as it, and they've always voice base can convert text base, but now it's a visual based which can link to yeah you can literally point camera, stuff it knows that's your shadow and you can ask a question about that image, and that image converts to text, that converts to code, that converts to it's crazy isn't it so?
Mr Hodgkiss:is it the end of humanity, williams?
Walliams:no, is it going to help us? At the moment, it's still just a very fancy google search tool. It's google mic search, but in more complicated fashion. It's not actually. That's the thing. It's not AI, it's just a fancy name for a computer. It's not AI, it's just a fancy name for a computer now, yeah, it's not actually artificial intelligence. Yet Artificial intelligence is when it actually has a mind of its own.
Mr Hodgkiss:Yes, which we're not there yet. It's thinking outside of our control. Yeah, yeah, we do still control that, I guess. Yeah, I don't know. I'm just going to smile and nod and be like everything's fine, everything's fine um that's interesting.
Walliams:I got a postcard from google beam vao to an old school postcard.
Mr Hodgkiss:Um, yeah, I got a postcard.
Walliams:Lovely, the know-it-all-know who's on his travels. On his tour, his wisdom is lonely. Lose yourself.
Mr Hodgkiss:Tour isn't it his his willy tour? Yeah, he, no, he did. He sent me a voice note actually about he was using because he wanted to document this and he used the hashtag willy. But when he then looked at, you know what came up? When you did hashtag willy, he was shocked, and so he knows it's the. It's not necessarily what I wanted, but I'm gonna send you what he said. I'm gonna send you the transcript of his postcard and, if you could read it out to the listeners.
Mr Hodgkiss:A transcript of his postcard Well yeah, because he wrote it in his handwriting, so I'll just send it to you now.
Walliams:Okay, oh my gosh. I mean, it's a big postcard.
Mr Hodgkiss:It was. It was a double-sided postcard with a big stamp.
Walliams:Yeah To Mr Hodgkiss and Mr Williams. Greetings from Laos. You wouldn't believe the things I've experienced over here. On my willy tour, I visited the kwangsi falls, the serene buddha park and the historic what zhang, thongs, thongs that's what it's called, apparently.
Mr Hodgkiss:What's young thongs?
Walliams:it's a wonderful country. Last tuesday I was sampling some sticky rice and a riverboat tour when I met an expat called Barry who said he only listens to two things whale song sounds and first look names. Oh wow. I felt oddly famous. And apparently he listens to Keep His Geckos Calm during monsoon season the only setter when they hear the calm, dulcet tones of Mr Walliams singing his intros, Apparently so. Before visiting Laos, I popped over to Thailand in search of a little romance. My heart is open and my beard is brushed, Would you believe. In Phuket I met a charming lady gnome called Miss Boom Boom. She was graceful, mysterious and wearing the most dazzling hat. We shared a coconut, a tuk-tuk ride and a beautiful sunset.
Walliams:Oh it's lovely, isn't it? But all wasn't as it seemed, and my romance took a plot twist. She wasn't a lady gnome at all. She was in fact a sprightly chap with excellent contouring and a penchant for mischief. It turned out his fishing rod was bigger than mine. Oh, how he laughed. I've learned that love is weird and it comes in all shapes and sizes. I'll never forget my night Doing this boom, boom, and I'm thankful for her tips On moisturising in the heat. Next I'm going down under To see if love is waiting for me In Bondi Beach. Until then, take care, love that know it all-all-know. Oh, wow, lovely to hear from him.
Mr Hodgkiss:He's having a good time by the sound of it.
Walliams:Lovely, well, well.
Mr Hodgkiss:That would have been a bit of a surprise with Miss Boom Boom.
Walliams:Well, yes.
Mr Hodgkiss:He's wise, luckily, so I'm sure he would have been able to deal with it respectfully.
Walliams:It sounds like he enjoyed himself regardless. He knows it all. It sounds like he enjoyed himself regardless.
Mr Hodgkiss:He knows it all anyway. That's it, a nice bit of wisdom from him still. Saying that love comes in all shapes and sizes. It's very true, isn't it Very true?
Walliams:To end the episode on a bad joke. Oh, yes, please. I'm a bit confused because this episode hasn't taken quite as long to record as the first episode.
Mr Hodgkiss:I wonder why that is. I'm sure it'd be in the same length um in the end. So we had a lot of chaos in the first episode this episode's been a lot calmer we did.
Walliams:We did. Um, it's about jokes. Go for it. You can tell the difference. This might be a british joke. Actually, you can tell the difference between a crocodile and an alligator by paying attention to whether the animal says see you later say that again no, that was it's too bad you can tell the difference between a crocodile and an alligator. By paying attention to whether the animal sees you later.
Mr Hodgkiss:I don't get it.
Walliams:Because you see in a wild crocodile, see a alligator.
Mr Hodgkiss:Oh, yes, okay yes, sorry, that's two episodes in a row where I've missed the joke.
Walliams:Yeah, but this is actually a bad joke, so it's meant to be bad. No, it was just bad.
Mr Hodgkiss:Yeah, but this is actually a bad joke, so it's meant to be bad. No, that was just bad. Yeah, that was Bad. Jokes are usually funny. That was just terrible.
Walliams:Dad jokes are less absurd. This is bad jokes Anyways right. Sleep at night time I plan on reading a book about lampposts and torches. Some light reading before bed.
Mr Hodgkiss:That's more like it Williams. That's the kind of stupid humor we've come to know and love.
Walliams:See you in a couple of weeks, everyone.
Mr Hodgkiss:Bye everybody, good night, Bye, bye-bye, bye-bye. Say that again.
