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... more

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July 02, 2025IM 826: Cusp of Noodles - The AI Copyright Battle Heats Up
Interview with Board Member of Cloudflare, John Graham-Cumming

My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

Two Judges, Same District, Opposite Conclusions: The Messy Reality Of AI Training Copyright Cases

How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (And, No, It's Not Writing Articles)

Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you

The Internet Needs Sex

Senate drops plan to ban state AI laws

Adam Thierer reacts

Denmark To Tackle Deepfakes By Giving People Copyright To Their Own Features - Slashdot

The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners

People are using AI to 'sit' with them while they trip on psychedelics

China hosts first fully autonomous AI robot football match

AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions

AI helps find formula for paint to keep buildings cooler

Microsoft's New AI Tool Outperforms Doctors 4-to-1 in Diagnostic Accuracy - Slashdot

It's Known as 'The List'—and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses

The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous Incompetence

We used Veo to animate archive photography from the Harley-Davidson Museum

G/O Media Winds Down by Selling Kotaku, One of Its Last Sites

Roadside America Dot Com

Cluely pitches itself as undectable AI

Lorde's new album: Virgin

AI recipe creation

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: John Graham-Cumming

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2h 37min
June 25, 2025IM 825: The Evil Clown of Middletown - Death By Powerpoint
Interview with Richard Gingras

Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books

Authors Are Posting TikToks to Protest AI Use in Writing—and to Prove They Aren't Doing It

Meta, Amazon, and more want 10-year ban on states regulating AI

Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue | TechCrunch

OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

Is AI the End of Dating Apps?

Can You Really Have a Romantic Relationship With AI?

gist.ai

Jeff talks about the new AI Chromebook

Veo sinkhole videos

Wiki Radio 📻

Tennis robot

The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003

Zuck's new specs

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Richard Gingras

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3h 7min
June 18, 2025IM 824: Full-Body Air-Quotes - AI in Higher Education
Interview with Matthew Kirschenbaum

Chatterbox TTS - a Hugging Face Space by ResembleAI

Here's the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals

Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition

Oracle CEO Says OpenAI's Stargate Venture 'Not Formed Yet'

OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

Smart Lamp Keeps Students On Track With Image Recognition

Google's Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon

Inside the AI Party at the End of the World

AI Barbie? Mattel & OpenAI Team Up For Smart Toys & Games

L'Oréal Taps Nvidia Tech to Supercharge Its AI Efforts

They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

Brooklyn TK

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Matthew Kirschenbaum

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2h 12min
June 11, 2025IM 823: Intelligent with Two G's - Google Has a Fox Problem
Interview with Stephen Witt

Altman's Gentle Singularity

Sutskever video: start at 5:50-6:40

Paris on Apple Glass

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats

Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement

Apple paper: The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

Futurism on the paper

Could AI make a Scorsese movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky discuss

YouTube Loosens Rules Guiding the Moderation of Videos

Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue 'Superintelligence'

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers

Amazon 'testing humanoid robots to deliver packages'

Google battling 'fox infestation' on roof of £1bn London office

23andMe's Former CEO Pushes Purchase Price Nearly $50 Million Higher

Code to control vocal production with hands

Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two public companies by next year

Social media creators to overtake traditional media in ad revenue this year

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Stephen Witt

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3h 12min
June 04, 2025IM 822: The One Man Unicorn - AI In Psychiatry
Daniel Oberhaus Interview

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

CNN Challenges Claim AI Will Eliminate Half of White-Collar Jobs, Calls It 'Part of the AI Hype Machine'

Indian AI Startup Worth Billions Turns Out to Be Biggest Scam Ever

AI Humanizer & Detector – Make AI Text Undetectable | Walter AI

This study used Reddit's AITA to test how sycophantic AI is

More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds

The OpenAI Board Drama Is Turning Into a Movie - Slashdot

Google's NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly

AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin

5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest — and it wasn't ChatGPT.

Morgan Stanley Says Its AI Tool Processed 9 Million Lines of Legacy Code This Year And Saved 280,000 Developer Hours

Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleges Unauthorized Use of Site's Data

Most new cars in Norway are EVs.

David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83

Fake My Run

The Nest (1988)

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guests: Jacob Ward and Daniel Oberhaus

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2h 54min
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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2h 43min
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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2h 40min
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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2h 41min
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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2h 59min
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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2h 43min

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