Intelligent Machines (Audio)

IM 838: Fat Bears Live Now! - Inside the AI Gold Rush

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Are we repeating the mistakes of the dot-com boom with today's AI gold rush? Intelligent Machines tackles why runaway spending, circular investments, and looming government deals could mean a hard reckoning for tech's biggest promise yet.

  • Interview with Steven Levy
  • Levy: Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
  • Steven Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
  • OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
  • Can We Afford AI?
  • Meta's AI system, Llama, has been approved for use by U.S. federal agencies
  • China's DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train
  • Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
  • Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
  • Former NotebookLM devs' new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research
  • Fat Bear Week is back—and the bears are bigger than ever
  • "My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community
  • ChatGPT is 3-8% of Google's search volume
  • The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
  • Data-Driven Analysis of Text-Conditioned AI-Generated Music: A Case Study with Suno and Udio
  • The LLM Has Left The Chat: Evidence of Bail Preferences in Large Language Models
  • More! Shrimp!
  • Wounded robots
  • Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI

    • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Steven Levy

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