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Robin Kohl has spent twenty five years being the last set of ears on a record, the man who decides when everyone else should stop. Twelve SAMAs, two thousand Atmos mixes, and a standing refusal to download a sound he could go and capture himself. He was travelling, so this one was made differently. An AI voice asked the questions, Robin answered alone, wherever he happened to be, and what comes back is a conversation about whether taste can be bottled, whether a machine can swing, and what a trained ear still hears that nothing else can.
The creative industry was supposed to be AI's first meal. Deidre Lodwig disagrees. The Managing Director of Net#work BBDO, the first ad agency of democratic South Africa, says AI is the enabler of HI, human intelligence, not its replacement. But she also says the industry must adapt its model or die. We talk creativity, craft, and what clients actually pay for when machines make the output.
Thirty years post-apartheid, the door is open. But the kitchen has moved. George Hill is a communications architect, a published Afrikaans poet, and one of the few people who thinks about what the digital divide actually costs in human terms. What are we exporting that nobody has, yet?
Before the guests arrive, the chef speaks. EP1 is the origin story, in conversation with AI, in his own voice. The triple digital divide. Dr Scribble. The guests coming to the table. And one Corner Question, turned back on the host.
