Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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Intelligent Machines (Audio) episodes

December 28, 2025IM 851: Intelligent Machines Best of 2025 - Our Favorite Interviews from 2025
Our interviews with:
Ray Kurzweil

Alex Hanna

Emily Bender

Mike Masnick

Pliny the Liberator

Kevin Kelly

Host: Leo Laporte

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3 hr 57 min
December 17, 2025IM 850: Bagel Rats - Open Source AI Rising
Forget the "AI is killing the planet" panic—this episode unpacks what's actually driving tech's power grab, the financial bubble no one wants to talk about, and why the big models are starting to look eerily similar.
CJ Trowbridge - cjtrowbridge.com - https://www.tiktok.com/@cjtrowbridge
Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed

The new ChatGPT Images is here | OpenAI

Last Week on My Mac: How good is AI at solving Mac problems?

Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year': the Architects of AI - Slashdot

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control

Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads

It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal

This major cruise line just banned Meta Ray-Ban and other smart glasses — is this category already doomed?

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

Oscars Bolts from ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029

When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models

Simulating Life Paths with Digital Twins: AI-Generated Future Selves Influence Decision-Making and Expand Human Choice

The worst person in tech bracket

Banned fonts

Subway bagel rats

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: CJ Trowbridge

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2 hr 16 min
December 10, 2025IM 849: AI Cricket Sorting - Cracking Chatbots and AGI for All
What happens when every major AI model gets jailbroken within days? This week, the world's most prolific AI red teamer lifts the curtain on how and why "safe" AI might be an impossible promise.
Pliny the Liberator | pliny.gg - discord.gg/basi
ChatGPT Nears 900 Million Weekly Active Users But Gemini is Catching Up

From Llamas to Avocados: Meta's shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion

Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026

Meta Acquires Limiteless, an A.I. Pendant Company Backed by Sam Altman

Here's how Google is laying the foundation for our mixed reality future

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice

Svedka's First Super Bowl Ad Will Be Made Primarily With AI

AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

TESCREALers paying journalists at major outlets to cover AI

The Resonant Computing Manifesto (from Masnick)

Techdirt fundraiser

From Sam Lessin: Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style

Bare Metal Email

Jeff in Austria

Golden Globes enter the world of podcasts and tread carefully, avoiding controversy

Who says AI isn't useful? Real-time Cricket Sorting By Sex

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Pliny the Liberator

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2 hr 32 min
December 03, 2025IM 848: Guaranteed Human - Satellite Photos for Everyone
Spies aren't just in the shadows anymore—AI has turned every smartphone and social feed into a battlefield of influence and surveillance. This episode exposes how intelligence agencies, rogue states, and even TikTok are using machine learning to reshape what we know, believe, and fear.
Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure

Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document

OpenAI CEO Declares 'Code Red' to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort

AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday online spending

I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?

Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major

Austria's Rebel Nuns Refuse To Give Up Instagram To Stay In Their Convent

Don't get angry, but the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year is 'rage bait'

AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner

The race to AGI-pill the pope

Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog's Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck for $250M Fundraise

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Jason Howell

Guest: Dr. Anthony Vinci

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2 hr 44 min
November 26, 2025IM 847: Caked Up Football Man - Why Small AIs Are Smarter
AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people?
Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools

White House pauses executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on AI, sources say

Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device
Kicking Robots, by James Vincent

Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream

The Twins Pushing Elon Musk's Plans to Replace X Staff With Grok

The prof crashed

I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.

Lawn gone: Robotic lawnmower devastates sports field in Aurich

Latest Yudkowsky nutballery: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence

AI-Salesman: Towards Reliable Large Language Model Driven Telemarketing

Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author?

A beautiful Nic Cage commercial

This stuffing recipe

How Taco Bell Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat at 2 a.m.

'A nucleus of a community': the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons

The Stahl House

A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Emad Mostaque

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3 hr
November 19, 2025IM 846: Chivelord - From Leather-Bound to Cloud Powered
What does it take to build tech the world actually trusts? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins the crew to dig into the real crisis behind AI, social networks, and the web: trust, and how to build it when the stakes are global.
Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in

Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

Part 1: How I Found Out

$1 billion AI company co-founder admits that its $100 a month transcription service was originally 'two guys surviving on pizza' and typing out notes by hand

His announcement leaving Meta

White House Working on Executive Order to Foil State AI Regulations

Nvidia stock soars after results, forecasts top estimates with sales for AI chips 'off the charts'

Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive

Jack Conte: I'm Building an Algorithm That Doesn't Rot Your Brain

AI love, actually

Cat island

road trip: liquidator's warehouse

Gentype

The Carpenter's Son...

My excerpt from the Q&A

Image of the paper

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jimmy Wales

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2 hr 44 min
November 12, 2025IM 845: Pregnant With 83 Digital Assistants - Are AIs Really Alien Minds?
Can radical optimism about AI truly shape our future, or are we stuck in a cycle of doom-and-hype? This episode features an unfiltered debate with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly on why most fears about artificial intelligence might be missing the bigger picture.
Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year By Collins Dictionary

OpenAI CFO Says Company Isn't Seeking Government Backstop, Clarifying Prior Comment

Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute' Into Law - Montana Newsroom

Sam Altman's Worldcoin Project Struggles Toward Billion-User Ambition With 17.5 Million Sign-Ups

Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup

Exclusive: US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up

Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network - Slashdot

12 Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree With 100%

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation

How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia?

What We Can Learn From Brain Organoids

If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here's Where They Should Go

LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Simulating and Analyzing Marketing and Consumer Behavior

No. 10's synthetic voters

Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow's NPCs: Non-Player Consumers

Eric Schmidt: This Is No Way to Rule a Country

My torture for you

Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise

'A frightening development': How AI-Articles are flooding the internet with fake news

Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

YouTube TV deal reportedly hung up on ESPN pricing as Disney loses $30 million a week

How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online

Tort Law museum visit

Bread and Puppet Museum

We're famous in Germany

Brand new bridge

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kevin Kelly

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2 hr 50 min
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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2 hr 44 min
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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3 hr 3 min
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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2 hr 20 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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