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
Can open-source AI models really be truly neutral, or are they just another conduit for hidden agendas? Hear how the founder of Nous Research is battling Silicon Valley giants to put ethical, user-controlled AI in everyone's hands.
- TOpinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
- AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
- (20) Sam Altman on X: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we w...
From lawmakers cracking down on loud ads to Deloitte caught peddling AI-fabricated reports, this episode explores how tech's greatest promises and worst follies are colliding right now.
- No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576 | Governor of California
- ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot
- OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT
- Senate Dem Report Finds Almost 100 Mil...
What happens when ex-Google innovators build an AI-powered app that turns your emails, favorite subreddits, and even your calendar into a custom radio station you can talk to? In this episode, the creators of Hux reveal how they're reimagining the way we consume information and why radio and podcasts might never be the same.
- Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from C...
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 S...
With AI hype everywhere, are we confusing slick projections and sci-fi clichés for real progress? This episode exposes the flawed thinking behind tech's boldest predictions and dives into what your future with "intelligent machines" might actually look like—waffles and all.
- Interview with Nick Foster
- AI's $344 Billion 'Language Model' Bet Looks Fragile
- Yann LeCun's mondo preso
- Elon Musk's xAI Lays Off 500 Data Annotation W...
AI isn't just the ultimate nonsense generator—it's also a powerful tool students and teachers can't afford to ignore. In this episode, professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West reveal how their new "BS Machines" curriculum helps the next generation stay sharp and skeptical in a world overflowing with synthetic "facts."
- Interview with Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
- Warner Bros. Discovery Sues AI Giant Midjourney for Copyr...
Go behind the curtain at OpenAI as bestselling author Karen Hao shares stories of infighting, ego, and shifting agendas. Find out why even OpenAI's security had her face on alert during her investigation.
- Karen Hao reveals OpenAI's secretive culture and early ambitions
- OpenAI's shifting leadership and transparency: from nonprofit roots to Big Tech power
- Defining AGI: moving goalposts, internal rifts, and philosophy debates ...
- Interview with M.G. Siegler.
- Google improves Gemini AI image editing with "Nano Banana" model.
- THIS is why large language models can understand the world.
- Building a16z's personal AI workstation with four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell Max-Q GPUs.
- Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5.
- Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year.
- We must build AI for people; not to be a person.
- AI "de...
- AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine
- China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis
- US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says
- Eli Lilly signs $1.3 billion deal with Superluminal to use AI to make obesity medicines
- The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
- AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% hi...
- GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.
- Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons
- David Sacks on X: "A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a "rapid take-off" to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, w...
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