Intelligent Machines (Audio)

• IM 814: Chesterton's Fence - Cory Doctorow, Fake Meta Benchmakrs, AI Therapy

  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 Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: monarchmoney.com with code IM Melissa.com/twit

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• IM 813: The Optimist - Keach Hagey, Twitter Leak, Skylight

  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 AI: history of a brand by Thomas Haigh Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start With A.I. Summaries First Trial of Generative AI Therapy Shows It Might Help With Depression Tinder wants you to chat with an AI bot before you fail with a real person Twitter (X) Hit by 2.8 Billion Profile Data Leak in Alleged Insider Job The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S. (Oh, no) Andreessen Horowitz in talks to help buy out TikTok's Chinese owners Trump to hold a meeting on possible investors to buy TikTok with possible ban at stake Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser Get ready! Catch Coachella 2025 live, only on YouTube Amazon Nova Perplexity AI CEO Denies Rumors Company Is Disintegrating Behind the Scenes AI accent conversion Kat Abughazaleh, from YouTube to Congress? Wurst cursor The fastest, most-accurate fast-food drive-throughs, and more! Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Richard Campbell Guest: Keach Hagey Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit bigid.com/im

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• IM 812: A Choir of Sentient Cabbages - Gary Rivlin, AGI Test, Section 230

  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 landmark press freedom case Why Apple, Meta and Google Are Buying Remote-Controlled Robot Arms OpenAI Unveils New Image Generator for ChatGPT OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap takes on expanded role as CEO Sam Altman shifts focus to research Gemini can now answer your Google Maps questions Announcing the (Reed) Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity at Bowdoin Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life. Section 230 May Finally Get Changed as Lawmakers Prep New Bill Threads hanging by a thread Dave Troy: The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America's Failure Using Ray-Ban Meta glasses' Live AI and Live Translation to learn and understand foreign languages A Ray-Ban Meta battery add-on for people who miss looking like a complete Glasshole Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan Guest: Gary Rivlin Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: get.stash.com/machines joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT threatlocker.com/twit canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

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• IM 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 Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: uscloud.com zscaler.com/security

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• IM 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 Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: monarchmoney.com with code IM threatlocker.com/twit get.stash.com/machines

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