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.

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Haha, English people call that a “beach”

hiraeth
welsh for nostalgic feeling for a home that was never yours

There is this cliff that looks like an elephant. I think he's the closest we get to cliff that doesn't want to be a cliff

Nostalgia for a thing that never existed
"Country Roads", especially the Japanese translation

aberfan would be incredibly depressing but there is *definitely* a narrative there

@5:21 hauntology.

I like the comparison to a sigmoid curve (an activation function that’s also commonly used in neural networks like GPT-3)

Nostalgia for things that never existed, eh? Weebs unite.

Why do your videos have to be about things that are true? I'd watch a "secret history of the British moon landing" video. Heck, I'd watch a full length documentary.

I imagine if anything, the word we could use for nostalgia of an alternative reality could be “alternis ovilis” which would roughly translate from Latin to “alternative nostalgia” I guess that’s more of a phrase than a word.

Skynet

Dude, you're reverse aging! Make a reveal video talking about how you're actually a vampire! 😆

Tom is getting replaced.

"The green death and the industrial revolution." ...Arsenic Wallpaper?

If that happens your job will be not easier but obsolete.

The word is nullstalgia.

"The British road that is also a boat"
There are streets named after Hood and Anson in Hastings. You think they'd be named after the admirals, but two of the neighbouring streets are Norfolk and Sussex. Turns out they're all named for battleships named after the admirals. Huh.
Not boats, but sailors:
there's a town in Canada (Ajax, Ontario) that names its streets after men who served on three WW1 ships. There was a big hoo-hah over it in 2020 when the name Hans Langsdorff (captain of the Graf Spee) somehow came up in the database.

"Hey GPT-3. How can I ensure the success of the GPT-3 project?"
Anyone read Avogadro Corp?

there is 100% a boat that’s a road you gotta find it

hey Tom, have you ever counted in binary on your fingers?

Well, your job might get a lot easier... but then, a bit after that, your job won't be needed... :-P
*Singularity*

anemoiac is the "nostalgia for nonexistant past" word your looking for

English but all letters are phonetically consistent

This video was somehow not tagged as horror.

It's cool how you can raise the "temperature" of the "how predictable" to make "good" interesting video titles that would get more clicks than "the beach where you can hear the sea", but if it is too high, it's actually not real and relatable enough to makes us want to watch it, and as you said, you needed to get the right measure, like a recipe to make a clickable title.
-Who would like to watch Jeremy Clarkson's in a russian roulette?-
This shows us that we are strange creatures, searching for knowledge yet afraid of the unreal and unknown.

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

That word, one of nostalgia for something that doesn't exist; is hiraeth. It's Welsh.

KIRBY'S DREAM AAAAHAHHAHHAAHHA

Tom Scott makes me want to say hi

5:21 anemoia

Anemoia (Word in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows) is nostalgia for a time you've never known

I would love to watch one on the royal mail railway!

Tom Scott has been wearing the same grey hoodie for over six years now.

It’s going to get a lot easier to make videos from now on...

Is it just me or does a car go past just when its climactic

was this also a suggested idea?

I love that some of the ai ideas sound like tom scott memes

Did it come up with this idea?

“Nostalgia for things that never existed” Not sure if this has already been said, but how about “Fauxstalgia”?

Nostalgia for a thing that does not exist is exactly what nostalgia is actually about.

What if... this video was an idea from the AI?

I can't find a word for "nostalgia for a thing that never existed" in english, but there is one in german: it's "Sehnsucht".

All of your videos are about very concrete things in society and history that everyone either already knows or can quickly understand. They all give a neutral explanation of those things, which either directly or implicitly links them to things that other people wouldn't think to link them to, giving us a slightly deeper understanding of what we think we already know.
Your dystopian reality videos and presentations from years ago, like the one about facebook's password authentication disappearing, are some of the most realistic and believable dystopian concepts that I've seen for that very reason. You can explore ideas while still feeling completely grounded in the physical world.

Did the A.I. suggest this video?

The scrawny town genotypically flower because owl expectantly file within a adjoining insect. overt, macho stove

Anemoia is close. Or perhaps saudade. Neither seems quite right though.

This was extremely interesting

Screw "Open"AI though.

Tom: Hey, AI, I'm short on video ideas, can you help?
AI: How about making a video about AI?

"Wigan Pier is a derelict industrial site in the West Midlands". WEST!!!!???......MIDLANDS!!!!!?????? Wigan is very much in the north and I have never been so insulted before

I think what you could do next time you bring in some guest presenters while you take some time off is to revisit the fictional AI created ideas and hand them off to creative/humorous types as a challenge to see who can create these fantastical things

ok but did the UK have *any* space program? cuz that'd be one I'd like to hear, I know so little about other countries' space programs besides the US and China...

That an ai can give you good ideas that says something about your standards (and yes I get that im still watching it so I guess I can't say much)

7:15 good timed car

Perhaps the word you’re look my for is Anemoia. Not sure that’s spelled right but in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows this defined as nostalgia for a time you weren’t a part of.

You should make a video about randomness and how computers are really bad at it.

4:48 potential SCP stories?

Funfact: This whole video is actually the AI generated script and the prompt was "Please create a script for a video about me being out of ideas for a video and asking AI to help me come up with ideas titled "I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good"".

The car around 7:30 was perfect

grian?

Only Tom Scott can make a lack of content some of the best content on this site

6:00 you can lie. This is all TRUE. I saw it on YouTube, and the host seemed quite legit.

You misunderstood... they're predictions

Jeremy Clarkson needs to watch this video and make the “lottery of death” happen 🤣

The art style for the plausible thumbnails is just fantastic, I love it, it manages to be right in the middle between "too complex" and "too simple", the colors were chosen really well and they just feel full, I just find them really appealing, anyone else?

I'm surprised by how many of those fictional stories sound like an SCP entry.

"never before written sentences" - dubious

Boattrains sound like a (rail)road that is also a boat.

Damn I kinda want the white cube video now

What if these are true and AI got them correct through patterns, just the whole internet where we keep the records lost it ...as not everything has been digitised.

This must have been around since at least 2016 to generate all the one-liners about how brilliant Brexit would be. All gibberish of course, but they sounded plausible enough.

There are paralel universes out there where each of these titles would be true.
And did you ever think that "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" might not be about the formation but about the name Cliff.

this guys channel still never fails to amaze me lmfao

OH an SCP generator :P

An invisible village, huh?
Oblivion, anyone?

the car at 7:12 is amazing

BTW: there is a Russian utopia in Potsdam, Germany. It‘s name is Alexandrovka.

Inexistalgia.

Could potentially be a boring one but it seems like your style (not that you're boring! It's just you cover weird little stories like this). What about the lack of BT in Hull (only place without BT lines in mainland Britain as far as I know). Just seems like a little oddity that's arose due to Britain being weird about things again.

2:42 The British adaptation of "Battle Royale"

Have you done a video on the sub sonic sound based phone systems used in stadiums to make synchronised patterns during sports games?

just for the record...nobody knows the real location of red cliff, or if it's a cliff at all.

That emotion is yearning, LGBTQ+ community uses to talk about people, places, times, and aesthetics they want but know they can't have.

The Fidel Castro CIA seashell thing sounds like it would belong in an HAI video.

Lofthouse
Please, drive carefully
You might hit the few buildings that forgot to become visible

Did it get the idea for "Kirby's Dream" from Kirby's Dreamland?

Wait, when did Wigan Pier relocate to the West Midlands?

I would watch an Unreal Stories series from you

The cliff that refuses to be a cliff: A story of Europe's fastest eroding coast line, the Holderness coast

Tom! The Woolwich foot tumble anomaly! Crazy story!

Honestly I would probably still watch "The Beach Where You Can Hear the Sea"

I should submit these to Netflix.

Kirby's dream comes from a Nintendo game "Kirby's Dream Land"

The Cliff That Refuses To Be A Cliff made the water i was drinking come out of my nose thanks alot

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

The abusive mountain lily follow because cauliflower uncommonly decorate up a hesitant archeology. malicious, overwrought pond

"Preemptive nostalgia of the possible but doubtful"

"The beach where you can hear the sea"