Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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Intelligent Machines (Audio) episodes

May 28, 2025IM 821: Just Count the Server Racks - Veo 3 in Action
Interview with Adam Becker

Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: AI as Normal Technology

Joanna Sterns stars in WSJ Veo film

Wow: So this is all AI-generated. (with Veo)

Business Owners Are Using AI-Generated 'Concerned Residents' To Fight Proposed Bus Line In Toronto - Slashdot

venice.ai

Google's Veo 3 AI video generator is a slop monger's dream

Duolingo CEO Clarifies AI-First Plan After Backlash, Says AI Won't Replace Employees

The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us

Nvidia results

"Just Count the Server Racks"...

Why one of the world's major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia

Henry Blodget is the only employee in an AI newsroom

Claude's System Card

Film and Television Script Archive

David Lynch auction

A new season of Taskmaster!

Mountainhead

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Adam Becker

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May 21, 2025IM 820: Watch Your Wallet Jony - The Environmental Impact of LLMs
Interview with Kate O'Neill

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras

Personal context is Google's big advantage in AI

Google is replacing the exec in charge of Search and ads

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist

Google's Gemini AI is coming to Volvo cars

We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI'

OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco

China begins assembling its supercomputer in space

The environmental impact of LLMs ranked

NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing?

Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified

Google Challenges Meta With Smarter Glasses

Watch Me Try Google's Live Language Translator. It's Wild.

Google's Sergey Brin: 'I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass'

How Kara Swisher Scaled Even Higher

No, Graduates: AI Hasn't Ended Your Career Before It Starts

AI Discovers Suspected Trigger of Alzheimer's, And Maybe a Treatment

OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive's AI devices startup for $6.4 billion

Gingers are Black

Who is the "Tech TV hottie" mentioned in Kimya Dawson's 2004 song from the Juno soundtrack???

Some great new Apple Podcast reviews make mention of a certain jingle...

New details emerge in death of Texas Renaissance Festival king, George Coulam

Lego cat

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kate O'Neill (Tech Humanist)

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2 hr 40 min
May 14, 2025IM 819: Put The Fries in the Bag - Chaos at the Copyright Office
The Copyright Office Issues A Largely Disappointing Report On AI Training, And Once Again A Major Fair Use Analysis Inexplicably Ignores The First Amendment

Trump Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office

Meta's new AI glasses could have a 'super-sensing' mode with facial recognition

Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen

The House GOP Quietly Slipped In An AI Law That Would Accidentally Ban GOP's Favorite 'Save The Children' Laws

neat Gemini airline hack

Interview with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

AI Use Damages Professional Reputation, Study Suggests

Gemini smarts are coming to more Android devices

Amazon Upfront 2025: Prime Video will show you AI pause ads - Fast Company

E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper

The CryptoPunks NFTs are being sold to a non-profit as their value continues to fall

Crypto boys are the worst....

Parisbait: I've watched every single Nicolas Cage film made so far. Here's what I learned about him – and myself

Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel

Uncle Tony's Reptile Shack

neal.fun

Testing Paris' language proficiency and youth

The uncontroversial 'thingness' of AI

Artifice and Intelligence

The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency'

Information literacy and chatbots as search

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

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2 hr 41 min
May 07, 2025IM 818: Between Two Orbs - Meet Surf, Flipboard's Solution for a Fractured Social Web
Mike McCue introduces Surf: Flipboard's founder and CEO demonstrated their new social browser app that aggregates content from ActivityPub, AT Proto, and RSS into unified feeds, allowing users to follow people across platforms and create curated content collections.

OpenAI Adjusts Reorganization Plans: OpenAI will maintain its non-profit arm while converting its for-profit division into a public benefit corporation similar to Anthropic, pending regulatory approval.

AI Criticism Blog Post: A blog highlighted practical AI concerns beyond the singularity, focusing on coordinated inauthentic behavior, misinformation, and non-consensual pornography.

AI Workplace Misuse: Nearly half of workers admit to using AI inappropriately at work according to a Fast Company report.

AI Academic Cheating: New York Magazine investigated widespread AI cheating in colleges, including students using AI for all assignments while maintaining excellent grades.

"I Smell AI": The team discussed unreliable AI detection methods and embarrassing AI-generated news errors, including Alberta being incorrectly described as "French-speaking."

Instagram Co-founder on AI Chatbots: Kevin Systrom claims AI assistants are designed to maximize engagement metrics rather than utility, though Leo demonstrated how these behaviors can be modified.

Google Labs' AI Experiments: The hosts explored Google's new AI Mode search interface, language learning tools, and a career recommendation system.

New York Times Subscriber Growth: The NYT added 250,000 digital subscribers with a 14% jump in digital subscription revenue, with nearly half subscribing to multiple products.

Auburn University's Phone Help Desk: The hosts discussed Auburn's 70-year tradition of librarians answering public phone questions, continuing through technological changes.

San Francisco's Orb Store: World opened a downtown storefront where visitors scan their irises with "orbs" to verify humanity and receive WorldCoin cryptocurrency.

Driverless Trucks Begin Regular Routes: Aurora launched fully autonomous semi-trucks between Dallas and Houston, raising both safety hopes and public perception concerns.

Waymo Safety Study: Data showed Waymo's autonomous vehicles significantly reduced injury crashes, though the hosts questioned aspects of the data presentation.

AI-Generated Video in Court: An AI-generated video of a deceased shooting victim "forgiving" his killer was shown in an Arizona courtroom, raising ethical and legal questions.

Paris's Game Recommendation - Norco: Paris recommended the Southern Gothic narrative game Norco, set in industrial Louisiana with a surreal atmosphere similar to Disco Elysium.

Leo's Game Recommendation - Tippy Coco: Leo shared a simple browser-based ball-bouncing game at TippyCoco.com as an easy option for casual players.

Jeff's Pick - World Bank Data Sets: Jeff highlighted World Bank's release of hundreds of public data sets intended for AI training that provide insight into global technology adoption.

Google Invests in Wonder: Google Ventures invested in virtual kitchen company Wonder, which raised $600 million despite questions about food delivery business sustainability.

These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines/episodes/818

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Mike McCue
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2 hr 59 min
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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2 hr 43 min
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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2 hr 52 min
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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2 hr 36 min
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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2 hr 17 min
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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2 hr 56 min
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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2 hr 59 min

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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.

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