Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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. Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.

Episodes

May 8, 2025 โ€ข 178 mins

  • 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 Ant...
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    • 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 prem...
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    • 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 โ€” no BS : r/ChatGPT
    • China cracks down on 'autonomous' car claims after fatal accident
    • Famed AI Researcher Launches Controversial Startup to Replace All Human Work...
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    • 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 p...
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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 land...
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    • 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 abou...
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    • 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...
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    • 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...
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  • Google reopening offices for some workers on June 6th, people working from home will get $1000 for furniture and office supplies
  • Zuckerberg: Facebook employees can work from home, but if you move somewhere cheaper, we'll pay you less
  • Big Tech work-from-home workers can buy these Montana mansions for less than a 1-bedroom in San Francisco
  • California's anti-freelancer law under attack
  • Switzerland: companies must pay rent for t...
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