Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart... more

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September 24, 2025IM 838: Fat Bears Live Now! - Inside the AI Gold Rush
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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2h 50min
September 17, 2025IM 837: Could Should Might Don't - Why Tomorrow Doesn't Feel Like Sci-Fi
With AI hype everywhere, are we confusing slick projections and sci-fi clichés for real progress? This episode exposes the flawed thinking behind tech's boldest predictions and dives into what your future with "intelligent machines" might actually look like—waffles and all.
Interview with Nick Foster

AI's $344 Billion 'Language Model' Bet Looks Fragile

Yann LeCun's mondo preso

Elon Musk's xAI Lays Off 500 Data Annotation Workers

Bessent: TikTok deal 'framework' reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday

The OpenAI paper on usage

Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope

ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification

Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope

A Maslow-Inspired Hierarchy of Engagement with AI Model

I Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now

How an AI Giant Became Obsessed With an Albino Alligator

Amazon invests over $1 billion to raise employee pay, lower healthcare costs

The Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

Rest of World: A hidden network handles chats for OnlyFans stars. AI could soon take over

How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society

Roadwarden

David Lynch's quirky house

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nick Foster

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2h 26min
September 10, 2025IM 836: I See OJ and He Looks Scared - Modern Oracles or Modern BS?
AI isn't just the ultimate nonsense generator—it's also a powerful tool students and teachers can't afford to ignore. In this episode, professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West reveal how their new "BS Machines" curriculum helps the next generation stay sharp and skeptical in a world overflowing with synthetic "facts."
Interview with Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West

Warner Bros. Discovery Sues AI Giant Midjourney for Copyright Infringement In Major Legal Battle

AI Watchdog

At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies

Most Scraped Websites of 2025

AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time.

Alterego

I Hate My Friend

R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data

AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says a girlfriend once broke up with him using a chatbot

Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related?

OpenAI's post on the paper

Gina Trappani starts a new blog

Schnitzel press

NFL Debut on YouTube Draws 17.3 Million

Set a two TikTok toilet limit to reduce haemorrhoid risk, doctors advise"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Co-Host: Harper Reed

Guests: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West

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2h 44min
September 03, 2025IM 835: Glitch Lord - Inside OpenAI's Secret Struggles and the 'Empire of AI' With Karen Hao
Go behind the curtain at OpenAI as bestselling author Karen Hao shares stories of infighting, ego, and shifting agendas. Find out why even OpenAI's security had her face on alert during her investigation.
Karen Hao reveals OpenAI's secretive culture and early ambitions

OpenAI's shifting leadership and transparency: from nonprofit roots to Big Tech power

Defining AGI: moving goalposts, internal rifts, and philosophy debates

OpenAI's founders dissected: Altman, Brockman, and Sutskever's styles and motives

Critiquing the AI industry's resource grabs and "AI imperialism"

How commercialization narrowed AI research and the dominance of transformers

China's AI threat as Silicon Valley's favorite justification, debunked

Karen Hao details reporting process and boardroom chaos at OpenAI

GPT-5 skepticism: raised expectations, lackluster reality, and demo fatigue

Karen Hao's bottom line: AI's current trajectory isn't inevitable — pushback is needed

Harper Reed shares vibe coding workflows using Claude Code 

AI commoditization—why all major models start to feel the same 

Western vs. Chinese open-source models and global AI power shifts 

Google antitrust ruling: AI's rise dissolves traditional search monopoly

"Algorithm movies" spark debate over art, entertainment, and AI's creative impact 

Meta's AI talent grab backfires amid exits and cash-fueled drama

Anthropic's "historic" author settlement likely cements fair use for AI training 

DIY facial recognition: Citizen activists unmask ICE using AI tools 

Picks: Byte Magazine's 50th, AI werewolf games, Berghain bouncer AI test, and arthouse film

"Perfect Days"
Get "Empire of AI" (Amazon Affiliate): https://amzn.to/4lRra9h

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Co-Host: Harper Reed

Guest: Karen Hao

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2h 45min
August 27, 2025IM 834: Gewgaw - Google's Nano Banana Model
Interview with M.G. Siegler.

Google improves Gemini AI image editing with "Nano Banana" model.

THIS is why large language models can understand the world.

Building a16z's personal AI workstation with four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell Max-Q GPUs.

Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5.

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year.

We must build AI for people; not to be a person.

AI "deadbots" are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for monetization.

AI robots are helping South Korea's seniors feel less alone.

College student's "time travel" AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history.

Forget Uber Eats—Chipotle's latest delivery option might shock you.

There are two types of dishwasher people.

Would you go on a tour of your local Amazon warehouse?

Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content.

Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated "freelancer".

The South Slope Derby.

Checking in on the Internet Roadtrip.

TikTok.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: M.G. Siegler

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2h 42min
August 20, 2025IM 833: The Most Popular S3 Bucket Ever - AI Slop, Clankers, and Shrimp
AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine

China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis

US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says

Eli Lilly signs $1.3 billion deal with Superluminal to use AI to make obesity medicines

The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine

AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher

Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble

Is the A.I. Sell-off the Start of Something Bigger?

Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google

Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: I Knew A.I. Deepfakes Were a Problem. Then I Saw One of Myself.

2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown

Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)

How to use "skibidi" and other new slang added to Cambridge Dictionary

YouTube Is Making a Play to Host the Oscars

Leobait: Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action

So ... is AI writing any good?

Project Indigo

We used AI to analyse three cities. It's true: we now walk more quickly and socialise less

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Rich Skrenta

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3h 9min
August 13, 2025IM 832: Surrounded by Zuck - Inside Google Gemini
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.

Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons

David Sacks on X: "A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a "rapid take-off" to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we" / X

A taxonomy of hallucinations (see table 2)

Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's 'Nearly Unusable' for Enterprise

Medicare will test using AI to help decide whether patients get coverage — which could delay or deny care, critics warn

Podcasting's 'Serial' Era Ends as Video Takes Over

Sara Kehaulani Goo named President of the Creator Network

What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments

Two-mile suspension bridge

Will Giz allow the Skee-ballers to make this their next outing?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Tulsee Doshi

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3h 17min
August 06, 2025IM 831: 9 Seconds of Google - Holy Widgets
Interview with Vlad Prelovac, CEO of Kagi

OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2

Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models

Kitten TTS: The 25MB AI Voice Model That's About to Change EVERYTHING (Runs on a Potato! 🥔)

Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services | StateScoop

Perplexity defensive over ignoring robots.txt and stealing data

Tesla Autopilot verdict sends a chill across the industry

AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay

Jim Acosta Just Interviewed an AI Version of a Parkland Victim

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die

A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful.

When you can't trust bunnies on a trampoline....

AI vegans

Get $120 off Thistle with my discount code

Finally, bookmarks on Bluesky... kind of

Good guy humpback whales

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Vlad Prelovac

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2h 39min
July 30, 2025IM 830: I Pay A Gentleman on Etsy - Personal Superintelligence?
Interview with Ian Krietzberg

Leo's shows off his new AI toys

Paris unveils her new desk setup

Personal Superintelligence

You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a joke you'll comprehend only with meticulous reading of it.

Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang

Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content

Tyler the Creator's No. 1 album overshadowed by 40-second AI-generated clip

The High-Schoolers Who Just Beat the World's Smartest AI Models

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX

Zuckerberg Walks Back Open-Source AI Pledge, Citing Safety Risk

Chipotle's AI hiring tool is helping it find new workers 75% faster

Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong? I went to find out

TikTok Live and iHeartRadio Launch New Singing Competition Show

This guy Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

JC makes wine

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ian Krietzberg

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2h 53min
July 23, 2025IM 829: The Yonkers Questions - What's New With NotebookLM
Interview with Steven Johnson

Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say

Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch

(21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X

Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation

The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears

OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity

SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
(21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation

Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces

A new study just upended AI safety

'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'

Tesla results

Total Party Kill

Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen

Attack of the clever crows

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steven Johnson

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2h 57min

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