Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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Intelligent Machines (Audio) episodes

April 12, 2023TWiG 711: Full Throttle Democracy - AI rules, Substack Notes, NFL pricing on YouTube TV, Smart display support
Google is No Longer Supporting These Five-Year-Old Devices.

Google ending Works with Nest & Dropcam support, Nest Secure owners getting free ADT system.

The Fitbit-to-Google account migration will start this summer.

Google Home's latest update provides more control over your smart appliances.

Google confirms pricing plans for NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV.

Discover more than 800 free TV channels with Google TV.

The Unintended Consequences of Internet Regulation.

The importance of disclosure in generative AI.

'We have to move fast': US looks to establish rules for artificial intelligence.

Create AI by describing it.

Use AI to create short-form video.

Get Your Kids to Love Reading with Choose-Your-Own Adventures, powered by GPT-4!

Substack unveils the product that got it banned from Twitter.

Instagram Founders' News App Artifact Adds 'Reputation Scores' and Comments.

Why progressive lawmakers are fighting against a TikTok ban.

TikTok sister app Lemon8 surges in U.S.

Samsung to cut chip production as profits plunge by 96%.

PC market faces another inflection point.

Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta.

Twitter reveals some of its source code, including its recommendation algorithm.

Google rolling out Android 14 Beta 1 for Pixel phones.

Pixel 7 April update fixes Bluetooth unpairing, and improves Macro Focus.

Google is working on 'Find My Device' feature even when the phone is turned off.

Google Will Require Android Developers to Make It Easier to Delete Your Account Data.

Android devices can now automatically archive little-used apps.

Google releases 'Cross-Device Services' on Play Store, which will power Chromebook app streaming.

Google prohibits personal loan apps from accessing user photos and contacts.
Picks:
Stacey - Homey Hub.

Jeff - Why are news outlets putting their podcasts on YouTube?

Ant - I'm Jealous of #Hardhead.

Jason - A deck of cards.

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 35 min
April 05, 2023TWiG 710: Jexx Javros - Google Cost Cutting, Pixel Tablet
Google closing some micro kitchens

Google issuing Chromebooks to employees as part of cost-cutting measures

Google Drive Imposes 5 Million Item Cap, Even if You Have Storage Space Left

Google Rescinds 5 Million Item Limit on Drive

Lawmakers are clueless about social media. They'll regulate it anyway

Bloomberg builds its own LLM, trained on financial data

Three things everyone's getting wrong about AI

Midjourney Ends Its Free Trial After Fake Images Go Viral

AI guys are the new crypto guys

Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images

Amazon just opened up its Sidewalk network for anyone to build connected gadgets on

Ding Dong. Live Audio is dying. Remember Clubhouse?

After disrupting businesses, Google Drive's secret file cap is dead for now.

Google launches ads transparency center.

Google Search gets new travel features, including a 'price guarantee' tool for flights.

Google Pixel Tablet arrives at FCC, revealing UWB connectivity

YouTube channel pages add a dedicated 'Podcasts' tab

The Google Now Launcher is fully shutting down 10 years later

Google is trying to make sure apps let you delete your account
Picks:
Ant's Picks: Pull UP

Ant's Pick: Have a Laugh

Jeff's Pick: Companies young people hope to work at

Jeff's Pick: Tech layoff numbers

Glenn's Pick: AirTag combination lock carabiner: Raptic Link& Lock

Mikah's Pick: Nite Ize Keyrack, Carabiner Key Chain

Hosts: Mikah Sargent, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Glenn Fleishman

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2 hr 30 min
March 29, 2023TWiG 709: The Egg From Hell - Twitter VIPs, ChatGPT Impact, TikTok Ban
Elon Musk and Others Call for Pause on A.I., Citing 'Risks to Society'

Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and their impact on humanity

The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library

#TikTokBan videos have 1.7b views on TikTok

Random stupid moment from Tiktok hearing

Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online

The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else

Norwegian company says TikTok data center is limiting energy for manufacturing Ukraine ammunition

Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94

Utah governor signs laws requiring parents' consent for minors to use social media.

William Wulf obit

Original Intel business model and NSF Net History

Maryland court reinstates murder conviction of 'Serial' subject Adnan Syed

The Pope and the puffer coat

Amazon delivery driver goes viral for dropping off package during a police standoff in North Carolina.

Rupert Murdoch's next wife is from Petaluma

Glenn's Pick: Everything But the Bagel Potato Chips

Jeff's Pick: Kevin's review of the HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook

Jeff's Pick: My Ontario TVO debate

Ant's Pick: Put These At Your Desk

Ant's Pick: Get 'Em Bonica

Follow The Laporte's Vacation Photos

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Glenn Fleishman

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2 hr 44 min
March 22, 2023TWiG 708: That Ain't Cheesecake - Google BARD Rollout, TikTok Ban, Adobe Firefly
A TikTok corner just for Stacey (h/t @[email protected])

DPReview.com to close: Digital Photography Review

Archive Team to Backup DPReview

Stacey's AI Tweet

The Age of AI has begun Bill Gates

Leo Gets BARD

Google Bard Sign-up

Looking at New Midjourney

ChatGPT Radio!

Adobe Intro's Generative AI into Creative Cloud - Firefly

Follow The Laportes on Vacation - Polarsteps

Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead

(2021) Libby is stuck between libraries and publishers in the e-book war

Google finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Samsung Exynos chipsets

Google Workspace ambush and fix

Support for Google Workspace #nocost

Reid Hoffman wrote a book with GPT-4

Stochastic Parrots Day video

Bellingcat founder Believes He Was Banned From Midjourney After His AI Images Of Donald Trump Getting Arrested Went Viral.

CEO on TikTok in DC

Lawmakers say TikTok is a national security threat, but evidence remains unclear.

Blackberry, the trailer

Have your cake and print it: the 3D culinary revolution is coming

Google Kills Jacquard

Stacey's Pick - Tapo TP-Link Matter Plug

Leo's Pick - LoFi Air Traffic Control

Jeff's Pick - The Vesuvius Challenge

Ant's Pick - 50% Off an Annual Subscription to Particle Illusion by Boris FX (use code PIPLUGIN50)

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 29 min
March 15, 2023TWiG 707: Heartlessness As a Service - GPT-4, T-Mobile buys Mint Mobile, Biden's TikTok demand, Gowalla returns
OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model.

Silicon Valley Bank is imploding, prompting bank run.

T-Mobile to acquire Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile in a $1.35 billion deal.

OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model (again).

Grammarly adds ChatGPT-like AI to create text in your writing style, outlines, and more.

Gmail, Google Docs, and more are getting ChatGPT-like generative AI features.

Facebook's Powerful Large Language Model Leaks Online.

Microsoft Lays Off Team That Taught Employees How to Make AI Tools Responsibly.

The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) presents Stochastic Parrots Day.

Google opens up its AI language model PaLM to challenge OpenAI and GPT-3.

Carrot Weather gets a snarky ChatGPT update.

Nabla, a digital health startup, launches Copilot, using GPT-3 to turn patient conversations into action.

Rent Going Up? One Company's Algorithm Could Be Why.

TikTok now offers a feed dedicated to science and tech.

Meta is working on a decentralized social app.

Gowalla returns to see if location-based networking is ready for its mainstream moment.

Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT.

Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition.

YouTube TV Multiview lets you watch up to 4 games in preview for March Madness.

Google Play will now machine translate Android apps for free.

Google Workspace is getting a price increase and other changes.

March Pixel Feature Drop with Android 13 QPR2 is now rolling out.

Stranded on a mountain, he tied his phone to a drone to text for help.

Meta layoffs: Facebook owner to cut 10,000 staff.

A Look Inside Elon Musk's $50,000 Prefab Tiny House.

The Biden administration demands that TikTok be sold or risk a nationwide ban.
Picks:
Stacey - Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock Hardcover by Jenny Odell.

Jeff - Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today, and I'm Going to Write About It.

Jeff - Lifehacker sold by G/O to Ziff Davis.

Jeff - Here's Everything That Happened at the #BlackTwitterSummit.

Jeff - The Color Printer.

Mike - ChatPDF.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Mike Elgan

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3 hr 19 min
March 08, 2023TWiG 706: What's This Dot Here? - Facebook AI model leak,YouTube swearing rules, Google IO 2023
Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?

FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk's Internal Communications, Journalist Names.

Olauncher. Minimal AF Launcher.

YouTubers can swear at the start of videos again without getting demonetized.

Gigi Sohn, Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle.

'Slavery was wrong' and 5 other things some educators won't teach anymore.

Google I/O 2023 takes place on May 10.

Facebook's Powerful Large Language Model Leaks Online.

How AI Generates New Images: GANs Put Simply.

The privacy loophole in your doorbell.

Rest of World receives a $200,000 grant from Ford Foundation to expand coverage of how tech is impacting workers.

Fitbit is getting rid of the best reasons to use a Fitbit, which is a big mistake.

Florida bill would require bloggers who write about the governor to register with the state.

Biden's national cybersecurity strategy advocates tech regulation, and software liability reform.

A New 'M*A*S*H' Scene: Written by ChatGPT, Read by Hawkeye and B.J.

20% of YCombinator classes are built on machine learning.

ChatGPT enters slack; the machine plays office politics.

Prepare for the Textpocalypse by Matthew Kirschenbaum.

Farewell to a tech brand of which I'll always be proud. Vox Media is "retiring the Recode branding" today.

CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo steps down for AI-generated content role.

March 2023 Pixel Feature Drop changelog leaks out.

Google rolling out Android 14 Developer Preview 2.

Blurry subway photos may offer our latest Pixel Fold leak.

Here's everything new in Android 14 Developer Preview 2 [Gallery].

Google begins rolling out its new look for Docs and other Workspace apps.

Google One brings VPN to $1.99/month plan, adding dark web info monitoring.

Pixel Buds Pro spatial audio with head tracking update rolling out.

Android 15's dessert is apparently 'Vanilla Ice Cream'.

Google launches the new Google Trends portal.

Google Chrome is making it easier to delete autofill data.
Picks:
Stacey - COVID

Leo - Opal C1

Leo - Camo

Jeff - The New Gatekeepers by Benedict Evans.

Ant - Peak Design TRAVEL BACKPACK 45L.

Ant - FINALLY coming to "TV". Silo series based on books by Hugh Howey.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 48 min
March 01, 2023TWiG 705: I Was Merely Fluffing - TikTok ban coming to the US? ChatGPT Windows 11 taskbar, Twitter job cuts
Our Growing TikTok Moral Panic Still Isn't Addressing The Actual Problem.

U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok.

Apple Watch potential ban: What you need to know.

All about Salt_Hank's upcoming cookbook.

YouTube's new head talks 2023 priorities, including AI, podcasting, Shorts and more.

Microsoft brings its new AI-powered Bing to the Windows 11 taskbar.

OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit.

Planning for AGI and beyond.

You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub.

Talking about the diminishing drive to share on social media.

Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits the App Store as an invite-only app.

YouTube video causes Pixel phones to instantly reboot.

In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO.

Elon Musk's defense of Scott Adams shows why he is misguided and dangerous.

Elon Musk Reportedly Building 'Based AI' Because ChatGPT Is Too Woke.

Mozilla leads Mastodon app Mammoth's pre-seed funding.

Google Drops 9 New Android and Wear OS Features.

Google Chrome's new zoom on mobile blows things up by up to 300 percent.

Google Keep's new Android widget makes it easier to check off items on your to-do list.

Android is adding support for eSIM transfer between devices.

Chrome tweaked to improve memory use & battery life on MacBook.

Waymo starts autonomous testing in LA with no human driver.

Google's bringing Magic Eraser to all Google One subscribers — including iPhone users.

Gmail's client-side encryption is now available to more businesses.

Google rolls out fall detection on the Pixel Watch.

Your Google Docs are about to look a little bit different.
Picks:
Jason - Artifact for Android.

Jeff - Jeff with teenage look filter.

Ant - New Affordable Amaran COB S-Series Lights.

Ant - How Y'all Doing by Leslie Jordon.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Howell

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3 hr 3 min
February 22, 2023TWiG 704: Ensconced in Felt - Section 230 in the Supreme Court, Google from the inside, Meta "verified"
Some Initial Thoughts On The Supreme Court Oral Arguments In Gonzalez: Non-Experts Might Still Make A Mess Of Things, But Without Understanding Why.

Quick Debrief on the Gonzalez v. Google Oral Arguments.

Cathy's Amicus brief.

Supreme Court Wrestles With Suit Claiming Twitter Aided Terrorists.

What happened to the K9YO pico balloon? Shot down by an F-22 Raptor.

The maze is in the mouse. What ails Google. And how it can turn...

Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is leaving, replaced by Neal Mohan.

NPR says it's cutting jobs by 10% as ad revenue drops.

Mark Zuckerberg - Good morning and new product...

Inside Meta's Push to Solve the Noisy Office.

Google Reassessing Timeline for Massive San Jose Campus.

German government banned from operating Facebook page.

Flooded with AI-created content, a sci-fi magazine suspends submissions.

Mercedes partners with Google to bring Maps and YouTube into its vehicles.

Subway planning EV charging oasis. Now if it were Taco Bell...

Google Messages is finally just calling it 'RCS'.

Google's long-awaited Tasks and Reminders consolidation starts in March.

ChromeOS 110 rolling out: Super Resolution Audio, Select-to-speak, channels labels, more.

Acer Chromebook 516 GE.

Google Weather gets an accidental dark theme via the Android System Webview update.

Google Chrome rolls out Memory and Energy Saver modes.
Picks:
Cathy - Montalbano.

Jeff - AI.com now takes you to ChatGpt.

Jeff - Never use a URL shortening service - even if you own it.

Ant - Borix FX Particle Illusion Updated.

Ant - Hagibis USB-C Hub with Hard Drive Enclosure.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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2 hr 44 min
February 15, 2023TWiG 703: Spicy Autocomplete - writeGPT, Privacy Sandbox, Musk's Twitter firing, Radio Garden
Elon Musk's reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it.

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first.

Google's AI chatbot, Bard, sparks a $100 billion loss in Alphabet shares.

Eight Research Papers That Set Off the AI Boom.

What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?

How, why and when generative AI will kill the search engine.

writeGPT - OpenAI's GPT prompt assistant.

From Bing to Sydney – Stratechery by Ben Thompson.

This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he's not happy about it.

Google Launches Privacy Sandbox for Android Beta Test.

Google Drive adding stylus and finger PDF annotation on Android.

YouTube TV subscribers will get a discount on NFL Sunday Ticket, access launches September 10.

Google Fiber rolling out $125/month 5 Gig service in 4 cities.
Picks:
Stacey - Radio Garden.

Mike - Wikenigma.

Mike - StealthGPT.

Ant - Centralized vs Decentralized on FLOSS Weekly.

Ant - Tiktok Since Mr. Jarvis is Off This Week.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mike Elgan

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2 hr 30 min
February 08, 2023TWiG 702: Lion Around - Shift Happens Kickstarter, ChatGPT powered Bing, Google Bard AI, Bret Taylor
Shift Happens: A book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary.

Matias Tactile Pro.

I Tried Microsoft's New AI-Powered Bing. Search Will Never Be the Same.

Google unveils its own ChatGPT-like AI chatbot.

Bret Taylor starts AI company; Google VP joins.

Twitter Places Limits on Tweet Frequency, Impacting Business and Individual Accounts.

Google's AI chatbot Bard makes factual error in first demo.

Twitter execs acknowledge mistakes with Hunter Biden laptop story but say no government involvement.

Elon Musk Found Not Liable in Trial Over Tweets Proposing to Take Tesla Private.

Google will soon blur explicit images by default in search results.

Google is adding some new features for EVs with built-in Google Maps.

Google winds down feature that put playable podcasts directly in search results.

Google launches Android 14 Developer Preview for Pixel.

Jason Howell reviews the OnePlus 11 5G.

Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say.
Picks:
Stacey - Sunnyside - Healthier Drinking Habits That Fit Your Lifestyle.

Jeff - Watch our new Fixed on Pixel ad ahead of the big game.

Jeff - Coffee for Ant.

Ant - Early Mornings Photo Contest.

Ant - Shout out to TWiG Listener.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Glenn Fleishman

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2 hr 53 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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