Are we repeating the mistakes of the dot-com boom with today's AI gold rush? Intelligent Machines tackles why runaway spending, circular investments, and looming government deals could mean a hard reckoning for tech's biggest promise yet.
- Interview with Steven Levy
- Levy: Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
- Steven Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
- OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
- Can We Afford AI?
- Meta's AI system, Llama, has been approved for use by U.S. federal agencies
- China's DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train
- Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
- Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
- Former NotebookLM devs' new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research
- Fat Bear Week is back—and the bears are bigger than ever
- "My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community
- ChatGPT is 3-8% of Google's search volume
- The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
- Data-Driven Analysis of Text-Conditioned AI-Generated Music: A Case Study with Suno and Udio
- The LLM Has Left The Chat: Evidence of Bail Preferences in Large Language Models
- More! Shrimp!
- Wounded robots
- Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Steven Levy
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