Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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Intelligent Machines (Audio) episodes

March 19, 2025IM 811: Flippin' the Bird - Anthony Aguirre, AI Safety, Hollywood vs. AI
Interview with Anthony Aguirre

The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of "AI safety" and "AI fairness" and prioritizes "reducing ideological bias" in models

Jensen Huang GTC Keynote in 16 minutes

Nvidia and Yum! Brands team up to expand AI ordering

Google Is Officially Replacing Assistant With Gemini - Slashdot

Google's Gemini AI is really good at watermark removal

Hollywood warns about AI industry's push to change copyright law

Hear what Horizon Zero Dawn actor Ashly Burch thinks about AI taking her job

Guardian agrees with Leo

The Daily Wire announces new advertising partnership with Perplexity and The Ben Shapiro Show

Elon Musk's Grok to merge with Perplexity AI?

Perplexity dunks on Google's 'glue on pizza' AI fail in new ad

Google announces new health-care AI updates for Search

Google plans to release new 'open' AI models for drug discovery

EFF: California's A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly

Italian newspaper says it has published world's first AI-generated edition

AI ring tracks spelled words in American Sign Language

Kevin Roose joins the AGI cult: Why I'm Feeling the A.G.I.

I Hitched a Ride in San Francisco's Newest Robotaxi

Elon Musk's X obtains $44bn valuation in sharp turnaround

The 560-pound Twitter logo from its San Francisco headquarters is up for auction

Andreessen wants to shut down all higher education in America

FSF's Memorabilia Silent Auction Begins Today - Slashdot

Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Zuckerberg than custom domains

Google acquires cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion

Alphabet spins off Starlink competitor Taara

Oh Mary!

TechCrunch Founder-Turned-Crypto Investor Pays $60 Million for Miami Beach Home

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Anthony Aguirre

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2 hr 59 min
March 12, 2025IM 810: A Liter of Computronium - Ray Kurzweil, Amazon's Robots, Cheating AI
Interview with Ray Kurzweil

Liquid eggs? NYC bodegas have new strategy to keep bacon, egg and cheese prices down

Google announces Gemini Robotics for building general purpose robots

DeepMind's latest AI model can help robots fold origami and close Ziploc bags

An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false

claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time
A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly

AI Tries To Cheat At Chess When It's Losing - Slashdot

AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance

Pokemon Go is getting a new owner after almost 9 years with Niantic

Robots That Don't Walk Are Making Strides

Amazon has more than 750,000 robots that sort, lift, and carry packages—see them in action

TikTok will play 'calming music' to remind teens to stop using the app

FCC chair asks if YouTube TV 'discriminates against faith-based programming'

OpenAI says it has trained an AI that's 'really good' at creative writing

Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'

The Senate approves Gail Slater, President Trump's pick to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit, by a 78-19 vote; she has been critical of power in the tech industry

Times profile of Jessica Lessin

Gen-Zers are turning to DVDs instead of streaming their favorite movies

Wonder Acquires Media Company Tastemade for $90 Million

Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ray Kurzweil

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2 hr 48 min
March 05, 2025IM 809: Fun Mustache - Gary Marcus, Digg Returns, AI.com
Interview with Gary Marcus

Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence

Meta Discusses AI Data Center Project That Could Cost $200 Billion

Satya Nadella Argues AI's True Value Will Come When It Finds Killer App Akin To Email or Excel

Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products

27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next? - Slashdot

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice

What to know about deepfakes bill backed by Melania Trump

Digg is getting another revival, this time with an injection of AI

Google lets Americans delete their search results

'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash

Alexis Ohanian Joins Project Liberty's TikTok Bid

YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content

Skype is shutting down after two decades

LATimes insights page

PDF example from the LATimes

Gebru: "🔇🔇🔇 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AGI AND ATTEMPTING TO BUILD IT IS A EUGENICIST, POWER CENTRALIZATION PROJECT THAT NO ONE SHOULD SUPPORT."

The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects

Masnick: Announcing Otherwise Objectionable: A Podcast Series About The Most Misunderstood Law On The Internet

18F demolished

AI.com Is for Sale. Asking Price? $100 Million

Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new 'AI Phone' priced at under $1K

Vintage Computer Festival East

Mimeartist is watching us on the big tv

Amazon's Delivery Drones Are Grounded. The Birds and Dogs of This Texas Town Are Grateful

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dr. Gary Marcus

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2 hr 55 min
February 26, 2025IM 808: Stephen Wolfram - AI Inspo, Nvidia Signs, Grok Sexy Mode
Interview with Stephen Wolfram

OpenAI now serves 400M users every week

Nvidia's Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech's A.I. Boom

Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus

Artists release silent album in protest against AI using their work

AI 'inspo' is everywhere. It's driving your hair stylist crazy.

Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform to teach American Sign Language and create a validated dataset for sign language learners and ASL app developers

Here's How Four Major Newsrooms Are Using AI

Google sued by Chegg over AI Overviews hurting traffic and revenue

Perplexity wants to reinvent the web browser with AI—but there's fierce competition

Perplexity releases a censorship-free variant of Deepseek R1

To Identify Suspect in Idaho Killings, F.B.I. Used Restricted Consumer DNA Data

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking Apple to build iCloud backdoor

Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist

Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's "AI for sweatshops" demo goes viral

Grok 3's "sexy mode"

Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk

When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works

Nebraska Man Struggles to Change Daughter's Name From 'Unakite Thirteen Hotel'

Touch grass

Bracket City

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Stephen Wolfram

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2 hr 26 min
February 19, 2025IM 807: My Life in Tokens - The Founders of Bee.Computer, Majorana 1, Grok 3
Interview with the founders of Bee.computer

Would Paris or Jeff get a Bee?

Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral

Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip

A 'Teleportation' Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is Here

Google's AI Efforts Marred by Turf Disputes

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3

Marcus: Elon Musk's terrifying vision for AI

Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?

The Humane AI Pin: A $700 Brick of E-Waste

AI Notetakers In Meetings Are Making Me Queasy - Bloomberg

AI Designs Plastic-Digesting Enzyme

Nikola, Electric Truck Maker, Files for Bankruptcy

Google Lens powering new 'Screen Search' in Chrome for iOS

Extra Finger ring

On Probabilism and Determinism in AI

My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani

A delightful look into the Murdochs' Succession Drama

James Murdoch interview

Roasted Chicken Thighs With Hot Honey and Lime

Leobait: Thermomix cult

Australian lamb video with comments section

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Ethan Sutin and Maria de Lourdes Zollo

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2 hr 43 min
February 12, 2025IM 806: I'm Piffed - Musk Vs. Altman, YouTube on TV, WikiTok
Elon Musk's Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up

Trump plans to nominate Brian Quintenz, a16z Crypto's head of policy to lead the CFTC

Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the "primary device for YouTube viewing in the US", indicating YouTube is "the new TV"

Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US

FYI related: Court Unplugs AI Fair Use Defense, But Context Is Key

"Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right": Meta emails unsealed

How Sam Altman outflanked Elon Musk to win over Donald Trump, including by telling Trump in a phone call that the tech industry will achieve AGI during his term

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition "Atrophied and Unprepared"

The Strategy Behind Musk's $97 Billion Bid for OpenAI

'Doomers' Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.

25 Years of The Sims Turning Players Into Gods - The New York Times

WikiTok

BuzzFeed wants to fight AI-driven social media with a platform of its own

Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent

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2 hr 24 min
February 05, 2025IM 805: Doomers, Gloomers, Bloomers, and Zoomers - Zack Kass Interview, DeepSeek Hype, EU AI Act
Interview with Zack Kass, Former GTM for Open AI

Why you can deep-six the DeepSeek hype

Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

OpenAI has undergone its first ever rebrand, giving fresh life to ChatGPT interactions

AI Has Shown Me My Future. Here's What I've Learned.

Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek

Hugging Face researchers aim to build an 'open' version of OpenAI's deep research tool

Anthropic makes "jailbreak" advance to stop AI models producing harmful results

WSJ: The Manhattan Project Was Secret. Should America's AI Work Be Too?

EU AI Act: Ban on certain AI practices and requirements for AI literacy come into effect

Cathy Gellis: When It's Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too

a16z slides on AI and voice

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three Google DeepMind former colleagues, including two who built NotebookLM's Audio Overviews and worked on Astra

Meta's CTO said the metaverse could be a "legendary misadventure" if the company doesn't boost sales, leaked memo shows

The Salvadoran Mega-Prison Offering to Take America's Worst Criminals

Hilarious analyst on Tesla

How the DJI Flip uses AI

Marketers will have to market to AI agents

AI systems could be "caused to suffer" if consciousness achieved, says research

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Zack Kass

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2 hr 46 min
January 29, 2025TWiG 804: Big Potato - Death Roulette, Influencer Voice, HillmanTok
Leo's AI Toys

DeepSeek

How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions

Mark Zuckerberg post re: Llama 4

17th Century Death Roulette ☠️

Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates

23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money

The rise of 'influencer voice': Why this TikTok creator accent is taking over the internet and maybe the world

Paris' new TV

Scoldy Mastodon

Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection

Dr. Barlow and HIllmanTok

Philip Low, long-time friend and peer of Elon Musk, posts open letter calling him out for what he is.

Why doesn't Siri know what it doesn't know?

New Vatican document examines potential and risks of AI

Technological puritanism

All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot

By Paris: Before Google's $2.7 Billion Deal With AI Startup, a Stark Warning on Safety

The mayor of Merrymac

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 43 min
January 22, 2025TWiG 803: Dadscrolling - Stargate, SkyTok, Chromebook Facial Control
"Stargate" Squares Some AI Circles

Old enough to remember Trump's Foxconn factory

What Stargate Means and What It Doesn't

Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law

SkyTok, BlueSky's TikTok, made with Surf on ActivityPub

The Second Trump Presidency, Brought to You by YouTubers

Google will let you control your Chromebook with your face

Walgreens replaced its refrigerator doors with digitized ad-laden glass. It might become a $200 million debacle

Nokia's reaction to the iPhone

The Ankler launches standalone trade publication on the creator economy

Bassinet backlash reflects debate over adding fees to connected devices

Elon Musk admits cheating at video games, chat transcript appears to show

The Whole World is Whining

Netflix's UK Audience Reach Overtook BBC1 For The First Time Last Year

Genrevision podcast

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 31 min
January 15, 2025TWiG 802: A Sycophant in Your Pocket - Supreme Court Briefs, Leo's New AI Toys
Justice Kagan Acknowledges Bluesky, And Other Notes From The TikTok Oral Argument

Alito and Playboy

A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed

Free our feeds fundraising

The people should own the town square

Lemley's post

Google's 'Daily Listen' lab is a personalized podcast based on your Discover feed

Leo's AI toys

She Is in Love With ChatGPT

Jawboning In Plain Sight: The Unconstitutional Censorship Tolerated By The DMCA

Personalized voice recordings by Elwood "You've got mail!" Edwards

American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al

Physicists figure out the perfect Cacio e Pepe recipe

Cursormania!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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2 hr 34 min

About Intelligent Machines (Audio)

From the publisher's feed

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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