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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April 30, 2025IM 817: Wheel 101 - AI's Impact on Human Behavior
Interview with Jacob Ward

Duolingo launches 148 courses created with AI after sharing plans to replace contractors with AI

The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here

The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete

Bridges and Tunnels in Colorado Are Helping Animals Commute

A rare glimpse inside the mountain tunnel that carries water to Southern California

You can't lick a badger twice

Mark Zuckerberg is planning a premium tier and ads for Meta's AI app

Zuck video promoting Meta AI learning all about you and your loved ones

Melanie Mitchell: LLMs & World Models part 1

Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem

Take It Down Act heads to Trump's desk

Attention Kmart Shoppers

Digital creator jobs jump 7.5x since pandemic

Rabbit ears

Orb.net

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jacob Ward

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2h 43min
April 23, 2025IM 816: Flappy Jeff - Harper Reed, Cluely, Bluesky Bluecheck
Interview with Harper Reed

AI Horseless Carriages

Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to 'cheat on everything'

Cluely, the AI cheating tool's new (insane) ad:

After 5 years of jaw clicking (TMJ), ChatGPT cured it in 60 seconds — no BS : r/ChatGPT

China cracks down on 'autonomous' car claims after fatal accident

Famed AI Researcher Launches Controversial Startup to Replace All Human Workers Everywhere

Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy

Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data.

Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools

A New Form of Verification on Bluesky

Survey: Americans Averaged Over $700 in TikTok Shop Purchases in the Last Year

The Washington Post partners with OpenAI on search content

Films made with AI can win Oscars, Academy says

The Welikia project

18 years ago today, Tay Zonday uploaded Chocolate Rain

Brilliant Senate testimony in Oregon

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Harper Reed

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2h 52min
April 16, 2025IM 815: Fire In the Hole! - Nikita Roy, Toxic Receipts, DolphinGemma
Interview with Nikita Roy

Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity

When is 4.1 greater than 4.5? When it's OpenAI's newest model.

Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

The Dark Power of Fraternities

Monkey.zip

High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data

DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication

'She helps cheer me up': the people forming relationships with AI chatbots

A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging

Meta CEO Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over antitrust worries, email says

OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are all about 'thinking with images'

Boarding passes and checkin to be scrapped

Pickled Popeyes

A new season of Game Changer

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nikita Roy

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2h 36min
April 09, 2025IM 814: Chesterton's Fence - Cory Doctorow, Fake Meta Benchmakrs, AI Therapy
Interview with Cory Doctorow

AI hasn't killed radiology, but it is changing it

Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks

Man Employs A.I. Avatar in Legal Appeal, and Judge Isn't Amused

Shopify Says No New Hires Unless AI Can't Do the Job

The (artificial intelligence) therapist can see you now

The 35th anniversary of Twin Peaks

Eddy Varekamp

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cory Doctorow

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2h 17min
April 02, 2025IM 813: The Optimist - Keach Hagey, Twitter Leak, Skylight
Interview with Keach Hagey

The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman's Firing From OpenAI

OpenAI's Latest Funding Round Comes With a $20 Billion Catch

Startup Founder Claims Elon Musk Is Stealing the Name 'Grok'

Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His A.I. Start-Up xAI

Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year

AI: history of a brand by Thomas Haigh

Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start With A.I. Summaries

First Trial of Generative AI Therapy Shows It Might Help With Depression

Tinder wants you to chat with an AI bot before you fail with a real person

Twitter (X) Hit by 2.8 Billion Profile Data Leak in Alleged Insider Job

The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them

Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.

(Oh, no) Andreessen Horowitz in talks to help buy out TikTok's Chinese owners

Trump to hold a meeting on possible investors to buy TikTok with possible ban at stake

Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser

Get ready! Catch Coachella 2025 live, only on YouTube

Amazon Nova

Perplexity AI CEO Denies Rumors Company Is Disintegrating Behind the Scenes

AI accent conversion

Kat Abughazaleh, from YouTube to Congress?

Wurst cursor

The fastest, most-accurate fast-food drive-throughs, and more!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Richard Campbell

Guest: Keach Hagey

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2h 56min
March 26, 2025IM 812: A Choir of Sentient Cabbages - Gary Rivlin, AGI Test, Section 230
Interview with Gary Rivlin

A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models

"KI ist nur ein Werkzeug. Jedes Werkzeug kann missbraucht werden"

Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an 'AI Labyrinth'

From the ChatGPT community on Reddit

Google is rolling out Gemini's real-time AI video features

23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to landmark press freedom case

Why Apple, Meta and Google Are Buying Remote-Controlled Robot Arms

OpenAI Unveils New Image Generator for ChatGPT

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap takes on expanded role as CEO Sam Altman shifts focus to research

Gemini can now answer your Google Maps questions

Announcing the (Reed) Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity at Bowdoin

Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life.

Section 230 May Finally Get Changed as Lawmakers Prep New Bill

Threads hanging by a thread

Dave Troy: The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America's Failure

Using Ray-Ban Meta glasses' Live AI and Live Translation to learn and understand foreign languages

A Ray-Ban Meta battery add-on for people who miss looking like a complete Glasshole

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Gary Rivlin

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2h 59min
March 19, 2025IM 811: Flippin' the Bird - Anthony Aguirre, AI Safety, Hollywood vs. AI
Interview with Anthony Aguirre

The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of "AI safety" and "AI fairness" and prioritizes "reducing ideological bias" in models

Jensen Huang GTC Keynote in 16 minutes

Nvidia and Yum! Brands team up to expand AI ordering

Google Is Officially Replacing Assistant With Gemini - Slashdot

Google's Gemini AI is really good at watermark removal

Hollywood warns about AI industry's push to change copyright law

Hear what Horizon Zero Dawn actor Ashly Burch thinks about AI taking her job

Guardian agrees with Leo

The Daily Wire announces new advertising partnership with Perplexity and The Ben Shapiro Show

Elon Musk's Grok to merge with Perplexity AI?

Perplexity dunks on Google's 'glue on pizza' AI fail in new ad

Google announces new health-care AI updates for Search

Google plans to release new 'open' AI models for drug discovery

EFF: California's A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly

Italian newspaper says it has published world's first AI-generated edition

AI ring tracks spelled words in American Sign Language

Kevin Roose joins the AGI cult: Why I'm Feeling the A.G.I.

I Hitched a Ride in San Francisco's Newest Robotaxi

Elon Musk's X obtains $44bn valuation in sharp turnaround

The 560-pound Twitter logo from its San Francisco headquarters is up for auction

Andreessen wants to shut down all higher education in America

FSF's Memorabilia Silent Auction Begins Today - Slashdot

Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Zuckerberg than custom domains

Google acquires cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion

Alphabet spins off Starlink competitor Taara

Oh Mary!

TechCrunch Founder-Turned-Crypto Investor Pays $60 Million for Miami Beach Home

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Anthony Aguirre

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2h 59min
March 12, 2025IM 810: A Liter of Computronium - Ray Kurzweil, Amazon's Robots, Cheating AI
Interview with Ray Kurzweil

Liquid eggs? NYC bodegas have new strategy to keep bacon, egg and cheese prices down

Google announces Gemini Robotics for building general purpose robots

DeepMind's latest AI model can help robots fold origami and close Ziploc bags

An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false

claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time
A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly

AI Tries To Cheat At Chess When It's Losing - Slashdot

AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance

Pokemon Go is getting a new owner after almost 9 years with Niantic

Robots That Don't Walk Are Making Strides

Amazon has more than 750,000 robots that sort, lift, and carry packages—see them in action

TikTok will play 'calming music' to remind teens to stop using the app

FCC chair asks if YouTube TV 'discriminates against faith-based programming'

OpenAI says it has trained an AI that's 'really good' at creative writing

Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'

The Senate approves Gail Slater, President Trump's pick to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit, by a 78-19 vote; she has been critical of power in the tech industry

Times profile of Jessica Lessin

Gen-Zers are turning to DVDs instead of streaming their favorite movies

Wonder Acquires Media Company Tastemade for $90 Million

Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ray Kurzweil

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2h 48min
March 05, 2025IM 809: Fun Mustache - Gary Marcus, Digg Returns, AI.com
Interview with Gary Marcus

Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence

Meta Discusses AI Data Center Project That Could Cost $200 Billion

Satya Nadella Argues AI's True Value Will Come When It Finds Killer App Akin To Email or Excel

Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products

27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next? - Slashdot

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice

What to know about deepfakes bill backed by Melania Trump

Digg is getting another revival, this time with an injection of AI

Google lets Americans delete their search results

'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash

Alexis Ohanian Joins Project Liberty's TikTok Bid

YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content

Skype is shutting down after two decades

LATimes insights page

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Gebru: "🔇🔇🔇 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AGI AND ATTEMPTING TO BUILD IT IS A EUGENICIST, POWER CENTRALIZATION PROJECT THAT NO ONE SHOULD SUPPORT."

The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects

Masnick: Announcing Otherwise Objectionable: A Podcast Series About The Most Misunderstood Law On The Internet

18F demolished

AI.com Is for Sale. Asking Price? $100 Million

Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new 'AI Phone' priced at under $1K

Vintage Computer Festival East

Mimeartist is watching us on the big tv

Amazon's Delivery Drones Are Grounded. The Birds and Dogs of This Texas Town Are Grateful

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dr. Gary Marcus

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2h 55min
February 26, 2025IM 808: Stephen Wolfram - AI Inspo, Nvidia Signs, Grok Sexy Mode
Interview with Stephen Wolfram

OpenAI now serves 400M users every week

Nvidia's Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech's A.I. Boom

Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus

Artists release silent album in protest against AI using their work

AI 'inspo' is everywhere. It's driving your hair stylist crazy.

Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform to teach American Sign Language and create a validated dataset for sign language learners and ASL app developers

Here's How Four Major Newsrooms Are Using AI

Google sued by Chegg over AI Overviews hurting traffic and revenue

Perplexity wants to reinvent the web browser with AI—but there's fierce competition

Perplexity releases a censorship-free variant of Deepseek R1

To Identify Suspect in Idaho Killings, F.B.I. Used Restricted Consumer DNA Data

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking Apple to build iCloud backdoor

Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist

Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's "AI for sweatshops" demo goes viral

Grok 3's "sexy mode"

Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk

When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works

Nebraska Man Struggles to Change Daughter's Name From 'Unakite Thirteen Hotel'

Touch grass

Bracket City

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Stephen Wolfram

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2h 26min

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