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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November 05, 2025IM 844: Poob Has It For You - Spiky Superintelligence vs. Generality
Is today's AI stuck as a "spiky superintelligence," brilliant at some things but clueless at others? This episode pulls back the curtain on a lunchroom full of AI researchers trading theories, strong opinions, and the next big risks on the path to real AGI.
Why "Everyone Dies" Gets AGI All Wrong

The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies

Google's First AI Ad Avoids the Uncanny Valley by Casting a Turkey

Coca-Cola Is Trying Another AI Holiday Ad. Executives Say This Time Is Different

Sam Altman shuts down question about how OpenAI can commit to spending $1.4 trillion while earning billions: 'Enough'

How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise

Perplexity's new AI tool aims to simplify patent research

Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do

Amazon and Perplexity have kicked off the great AI web browser fight

Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane

Dictionary.com names 6-7 as 2025's word of the year

Tech companies don't care that students use their AI agents to cheat

The Morning After: Musk talks flying Teslas on Joe Rogan's show

The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden

TikTok announces its first awards show in the US

Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space

Anthropic Projects $70 Billion in Revenue, $17 Billion in Cash Flow in 2028

American Museum of Tort Law

Dog Chapel - Dog Mountain

Nicvember masterlist

Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeremy Berman

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October 29, 2025IM 843: Immortal Beloved, You've Arrived - AI's Emotional Intelligence Paradox
Can an AI truly care about your feelings—or is emotional intelligence in machines just the most sophisticated form of manipulation? Dr. Alan Cowen of Hume AI joins the crew to unpack the promise and peril of emotionally adept bots, even as they're quietly shaping how we connect, seek help, and parent in the digital age.
Virtual Try On Free Online - AI Clothes Changer | i-TryOn

Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI tool to slash marketing costs

OpenAI Moves to Generate AI Music in Potential Rivalry With Startup Suno

Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots are incredibly sycophantic

Microsoft's Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships

Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon - Dexerto

A Definition of AGI

OpenAI Finalizes Corporate Restructuring, Gives Microsoft 27% Stake and Technology Access Until 2032 - Slashdot
This mom's son was asking Tesla's Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says

Nvidia Becomes World's First $5 Trillion Company - Slashdot

Paris Hilton Has Been Training Her AI for Years

How Realistic is OpenAI's 2028 Timeline For Automating AI Research Itself?

Tesla's "Mad Max" mode is now under federal scrutiny

Zenni's Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age

Alphabet earnings

Meta earnings

You Have No Idea How Screwed OpenAI Actually Is

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B

Casio's Fluffy AI Robot Squeaked Its Way Into My Heart

For the sake of the show, I will suffer this torture -jj

Machine Olfaction and Embedded AI Are Shaping the New Global Sensing Industry

A silly little photoshoot with your friends

Bugonia

Celebrating 25 years of Google Ads

The Data Is In: The Washington Post Can't Replace Its "TikTok Guy"

Peak screen?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dr. Alan Cowen

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October 22, 2025IM 842: None Pizza Left Beef - AI On the Edge
Is the future of artificial intelligence running on your desk instead of in massive data centers? This episode breaks down how Nvidia's Blackwell chip and HP's new ZGX Nano could let anyone fine-tune jaw-dropping language models at home—and why privacy, cost, and control are suddenly up for grabs.
Introducing ChatGPT Atlas

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

Leo... AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

OpenAI cracks down on Sora 2 deepfakes after pressure from Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA

Is Andrej Karpathy Right About Overhyped AI?

Happy 18th Birthday to None Pizza Left Beef

Originality.ai

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mike Elgan

Guests: Joey de Villa and Andrew Hawthorn

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2h 20min
October 15, 2025IM 841: Dust and Deli Meat - Open Source AI Revolution
Can open-source AI models really be truly neutral, or are they just another conduit for hidden agendas? Hear how the founder of Nous Research is battling Silicon Valley giants to put ethical, user-controlled AI in everyone's hands.
TOpinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families

(20) Sam Altman on X: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have" / X

The AI water issue is fake

California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch

Walmart Announces It Will Sell Products Through ChatGPT's Instant Checkout

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

Social media must warn users of 'profound' health risks under new California law

Google will let friends help you recover an account

AI content on the net

AI writing hasn't overwhelmed the web yet

Karpathy tweet

Humanity AI Commits $500 Million to Build a People-Centered Future for AI

Sal Khan is the new TED

You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Nano Banana is coming to Google Search, NotebookLM and Photos.

Paper: Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit

THOUSANDS OF AI AUTHORS ON THE FUTURE OF AI

A Twitch streamer gave birth live, with Twitch's CEO in the chat

DirecTV will soon bring AI ads to your screensaver

Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp?

Inherently funny word

Boah, Bahn!

A book is being marketed with mayo-scented ink. Jealous? Me?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeffrey Quesnelle

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3h 4min
October 08, 2025IM 840: Pudding Forks - Industrial Bubble or Tech Boom?
From lawmakers cracking down on loud ads to Deloitte caught peddling AI-fabricated reports, this episode explores how tech's greatest promises and worst follies are colliding right now.
No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576 | Governor of California

ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot

OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT

Senate Dem Report Finds Almost 100 Million Jobs Could Be Lost To AI - Slashdot

Jony Ive's secretive AI hardware reportedly hit three problems

Deloitte to refund Australian government after AI hallucinations found in report

Anthropic and Deloitte Partner to Build AI Solutions for Regulated Industries

America is now one big bet on AI

The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI

Data centers responsible for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year

Martin Peers: The AI Profit Fantasy

A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls

Insurers hesitate at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI, Anthropic in AI lawsuits

Slop factory worries about slop: MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry

CAN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS DEVELOP GAMBLING ADDICTION?

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence

Have we passed peak social media?

As Elon Musk Preps Tesla's Optimus for Prime Time, Big Hurdles Remain

OpenAI signs huge chip deal with AMD, and AMD stock soars

Google CodeMender

Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model

Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology

Our friend Glenn

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 40min
October 01, 2025IM 839: Cogsuckers and Clankers - Radio's New Golden Age or Apocalypse?
What happens when ex-Google innovators build an AI-powered app that turns your emails, favorite subreddits, and even your calendar into a custom radio station you can talk to? In this episode, the creators of Hux reveal how they're reimagining the way we consume information and why radio and podcasts might never be the same.
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

It's time to prepare for AI personhood

Creator of AI Actress Tilly Norwood Responds to Backlash: "She Is Not a Replacement for a Human Being"

Link to the podslop podcasts

California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law

Sen. Mark Kelly's big plan for an AI future isn't ambitious enough

** DeepMind defines levels of AGI

Pissed-off Fans Flooded the Twin Peaks Reddit With AI Slop To Protest Its AI Policies

AI passed the hardest CFA test in minutes

ChatGPT is now 20% of Walmart's referral traffic — while Amazon wards off AI shopping agents

Amazon event live blog: we're here for new Echos, Kindles, and more

Introducing ChatGPT Pulse | OpenAI

Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab to make AI digital assistant

That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus

Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Anthropic Settlement

It's official: Google says the Android and ChromeOS merger is coming 'next year'

Blippo+

Guardian sliders

Ive's $4,800 lantern

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Raiza Martin

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2h 25min
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 49min
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"

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Co-Host: Harper Reed

Guest: Karen Hao

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2h 45min

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