Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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January 17, 2024TWiG 751: The NUMTOT With a Top Knot - Google Layoffs, Verizon Fees, AI Boyfriends
Is A.I. the Death of I.P.?

Samsung Unpacked recap

Google Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers in Its Voice Assistant, AR Teams

Google Formally Endorses Right to Repair, Will Lobby to Pass Repair Laws

Google Maps now supports Bluetooth beacons in tunnels

Apple revises US App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods, feat a scary message!

Jeff's op-ed proposing that Bell Labs be turned into a Museum and School of the Internet

Peacock's AFC Wild Card game was the "most-streamed event ever in the US."

Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement

Tom Coates on Meta and the Fediverse

Fox puts its stuff on the blockchain

Functions Google is killing in Assistant

Google quietly updates Chrome's incognito warning in wake of tracking lawsuit

Google updates Chrome Incognito disclaimer amid $5 billion lawsuit settlement

Google introduces 'Circle to Search,' a new way to search from anywhere on Android using gestures

GPT Store opens

Glenn's thing: How Infrastructure Works

Paris's thing: 1990s internet directories

Jeff's Thing: swarovski's world-first AI binoculars that identify species on their own

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Glenn Fleishman

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2 hr 29 min
January 10, 2024TWiG 750: The Right to Read - Athelas' Troubles, Free Tax-Filing, Walmart AI
Paris' big story: A Healthtech Unicorn Leaves a Trail of Clinic Complaints, Concerns Over Billing Practices

The Information's 10th Anniversary

Plagiarism Is Fine

OpenAI's response to the NYT lawsuit

Fair Use, The Internet Archive, And Why We Bother To Have Copyright Law At All

Gaming voice actors blindsided by 'garbage' union AI deal

Asus' new laptop has two screens and a removable keyboard

I.R.S. to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System

EFF Unveils Its New Street Level Surveillance Hub

FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data | TechCrunch

Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date

Layoffs at Humane AI

Walmart debuts generative AI search and AI replenishment features at CES

Volkswagen says it's putting ChatGPT in its cars for 'enriching conversations'

We Need To Talk About "Chunkus"

This Week in Tunnels (Brooklyn edition)

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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2 hr 17 min
January 03, 2024TWiG 749: A Well Regulated Jart Team - NYT vs. OpenAI, Google Incognito, Tunnel Girl
NYTimes sues OpenAI

How OpenAI could recreate Times quotes

OpenAI's annualized revenue reportedly tops $1.6B

As Assistant with Bard inches toward launch, here's its UI in action

Podcast police

TikToker 'Tunnel Girl' ordered to stop viral digging project under Virginia home

Apps will now be reporting your earnings to tax authorities

The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again

Seattle's Zulily will 'wind down' its business and liquidate its assets

Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit

Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws

How Campbell Soup Turned New Jersey Into a Tomato-Growing State

A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless.

How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun

FTC Continues To Wade Into Copyright Issues In AI Without Understanding Anything

Amazon plans to make its own hydrogen to power vehicles

Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter

Dave Karpf from Wired's 30th birthday bash

Don't forget to wish every horse in the northern hemisphere happy birthday

The online Failure Museum

A letter of recommendation for Medieval Times

Gen Alpha

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 18 min
December 26, 2023TWiG 748: Best of 2023 - This Week in Google's Best Moments of 2023
Leo looks back at the best stories they covered in 2023.
Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT, Leo introduces Neeva.

Former Google Employee Talks About Latest Google Layoffs

Batting a Thousand

Elon Musk Fires Top Twitter Engineer

Meta Launches Threads

Mark Lucovsky Leaves Google, Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama

OpenAI Strikes $5M Deal For Local News Initiatives

Twitter Re-branded as X

Waffle Party

Paris announced as new co-host

Host: Leo Laporte

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2 hr 14 min
December 20, 2023TWiG 747: In an Abundance of Caution - AI Patents, Pig Butchering Scams, ChevyGPT
Google's $700 million Play Store settlement

Cox Media Group claims they can listen in on your conversations

Police don't get Google's location data anymore

How billionaires spend their money on immortality

No more AI Facial Recognition for Rite Aid

UK Supreme Court rules that an AI cannot patent an invention

Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material

Apple watches sales to stop on December 21

515 Wordles and what we learned

Jeff tries to hook up Salthank

Google restructures ad sales

Chevy's ChatGPT pitches Teslas and sells cars for $1

A group representing TikTok, Meta sues Utah over social media age limits

EU opens formal DSA investigation into X in wake of Israel-Hamas war

Tesla Autopilot fix falls short, according to Consumer Reports

Flipboard enters the fediverse

Om: Why Vision Pro Will Change Photography

Not Gmail dot com, but Gail dot com

Instacart's numbers

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 43 min
December 13, 2023TWiG 746: Huffin' Hazelnut - NotebookLM, Google's Monopoly, Tesla Recall
This wide-ranging episode of TWiG covers many hot topics in tech, including the capabilities and limitations of AI writing tools like NotebookLM, controversies around misleading marketing of Google's Gemini AI model, the future of media and magazines, EU regulation of AI, and more.
Interview with Steven Johnson about NotebookLM

Google's best Gemini demo was faked

Round 2: We test the new Gemini-powered Bard against ChatGPT | Ars Technica

Channel1.ai is an AI-generated news show: pilot

EU's AI Act

Google's App Store Ruled an Illegal Monopoly, as a Jury Sides With Epic Games | WIRED

This A.I. Subculture's Motto: Go, Go, Go

Tesla (TSLA) Autopilot Recall: Two Million Cars Need Software Fix - Bloomberg

FCC issues final denial of $885M Starlink subsidy | TechCrunch

Ukraine's intelligence claims cyberattack on Russia's state tax service

Ukraine's largest telecom operator shut down after cyberattack

Netflix Releases Viewing Data for 18,000 TV Shows and Movies – The Hollywood Reporter

Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle

Outer Wilds, a fun time loop mystery game for spacers

Dropout CEO Talks Doubling CollegeHumor Successor's Streaming Subs and Content Output, Price

Increase Plans and First Profit Sharing
Zuck says Threads is testing federation w/ActivityPub

Google's Year in Search 2023

Google's Trends Time Capsule

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steven Johnson

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2 hr 45 min
December 06, 2023TWiG 745: Livvy Rizzed Up Baby Gronk - Google Gemini AI, Beeper Mini
Misinformation researcher Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Facebook

Meet Gemini AI, Google's ChatGPT Killer

The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI

How Elon Musk and Larry Page's AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom

Beeper Cloud and Product Roadmap Update

Spotify Cancels Two Acclaimed Podcasts — 'Heavyweight,' 'Stolen'

Salt-Hank Gordon Ramsey duet!!

Google's Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro for recording summaries and smart replies

Do you know what 'rizz' is?? It's Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year.

Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear: We've Lost 'a Real Champion of America'

Linda Yaccarino's Very Unmerry X Mess

Picks of the week
(Paris) WeCroak, a great app for the fun nihilists

(Paris) 10 years of The Information! How Jessica Lessin's The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult

(Jeff) Pornography websites will have to check users' ages, under draft UK guidelines

(Jeff) AI-powered pickleball calls

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 32 min
November 29, 2023TWiG 744: Giant Red Ties - Google Online News Act, DeepMind AI
Federal government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act

Google DeepMind researchers use AI tool to find 2mn new materials

Some Pixel 8 Pro displays have bumps under the glass

Reflecting on 18 years at Google

Google's new geothermal energy project is up and running

AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips

Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies

Does Black Friday and Cyber Monday Matter?

Adobe's $20 Billion Purchase of Figma Would Harm Innovation, U.K. Regulator Provisionally Finds

Elon goes full Pizzagate. How does this end?

A new low in manels

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement and Concern

Hugging Face CEO on What Comes After Transformers

Hinton vs LeCun vs Ng vs Tegmark vs O

Anthony Levandowski Reboots Church of Artificial Intelligence

Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

Google Slides getting built-in presentation recording tool

Google Will Start Deleting Old Accounts This Week. Here's How to Save Your Google Account

Google's .meme domain is here to serve your wackiest websites

Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files
Picks of the week
(Paris) The 2000 cinematic masterpiece Chicken Run

(Paris) Pentiment

(Jeff) Jezebel to Be Resurrected by Paste Magazine

(Jeff) After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine

(Ant) City Nerd on YouTube

(Jason) No Ads in Albania, Ethiopia and Myanmar

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 22 min
November 22, 2023TWiG 743: Competitive Pantomime - OpenAI deep dive, Musk's Media Matters lawsuit, Stable Video Diffusion
From King to Exile to King Again: The Inside Story of Sam Altman's Whiplash Week

OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Ilya Sutskever on X: "I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company."

Altman Argued With OpenAI Board Member Toner Before Ouster

Microsoft exits OpenAI drama with 'one of best possible outcomes'

Dear Elon Musk, here are five things you might want to consider about AGI

DeepMind releases new music model

Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music

Introducing Stable Video Diffusion — Stability AI

Google Meet can now detect when you physically raise your hand

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024

Google Maps' new look may frustrate Calif. drivers as Thanksgiving travel begins

Google will work with Apple on implementing RCS on iPhone

Anthropic Introduces Claude 2.1 With 200K Context Window

Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Lawsuit Against Meta

Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn't Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!

What Spotify's New Royalty Model Really Means

MC HAMMER on X: "Salute and congratulations to the 710 plus @OpenAI team members who gave an unparalleled demonstration of loyalty, love and commitment to @sama and @gdb in these perilous times it was a thing of beauty to witness. Salute

Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over 'Video Game Addiction', Because That's Easier Than Parenting
Picks:
Paris - a beautiful 2 minutes in live caller history. Stephen A. Smith vs a guy who tries to ask about Cars

Paris - And.... from the mind that brought you basement eel guy: TikTok tunnel girl

Jeff - No evidence screen time is negative for children's cognitive development and well-being: Oxford Study

Ant - Great Review From Mr Sargent and Mr Nielsen - Shot on iPhone 15

Ant - LumaFusion Update Includes Editing on SSD

Ant - Bittersweet and Grateful

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 59 min
November 15, 2023TWiG 742: More Eel Guys Than You Know - Leo's GPTs, Alex Stamos on election disinformation, deepfakes, eels!
Discussion of upcoming Black Friday sales on Google Pixel phones and tablets

Concerns with the Pixel tablet including laggy performance, inability to use independently from dock, and high pricing

Leo shares his epiphany on the usefulness of AI for expert systems and personalized agents

Demonstration of Leo's custom AI assistants for Lisp and Emacs programming languages

Talk of Elon Musk's reputation decline after acquiring Twitter

Discussion of studies showing people perceive AI-generated faces as more human than real faces

Overview of lawsuit allowing school districts to sue social media companies for youth addiction

Interview with Alex Stamos, former Facebook CSO and current Stanford professor

Alex's perspective on risks of deepfakes in elections vs for individual harassment

Thoughts on moral panic around social media and youth mental health

Alex recounts attending a closed-door Senate AI hearing led by Senator Schumer

Discussion of social media companies loosening policies on election misinformation

Concerns about TikTok as a news source and possible propaganda risks

Talk of new book "A History of Fake Things on the Internet" by Walter Shirer

Alex's suggestion for comprehensive federal privacy regulations

Revelation during Google antitrust trial of Apple's cut of Google search revenue

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Jason Howell

Guest: Alex Stamos

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2 hr 17 min

About 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 phones and robots.

The Intelligent Machines podcast explores the most exciting revolution humanity has ever seen, filled with promise and peril. More than ever we need to understand what these new devices will bring to our lives and how to make best use of them as the 21st century unfolds.

On this show you'll meet the AI pioneers, inventors, and innovators who are about to disrupt every aspect of modern life. You'll learn what's real and what's hype, and you'll come away with a deep understanding of the intelligent future that awaits us all.

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