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.

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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...

Mar 27, 2025•3 hr 59 min•Ep. 812

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...

Mar 20, 2025•3 hr 59 min•Ep. 811

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 ne...

Mar 13, 2025•3 hr 48 min•Ep. 810

IM 809: Fun Mustache - Gary Marcus, Digg Returns, AI.com

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 uncanny valley of conversational voice What to know about deepfakes bill back...

Mar 06, 2025•3 hr 54 min•Ep. 809

IM 808: Stephen Wolfram - AI Inspo, Nvidia Signs, Grok Sexy Mode

Interview with Stephen Wolfram OpenAI now serves 400M users every week Nvidia's Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech's A.I. Boom Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus Artists release silent album in protest against AI using their work AI 'inspo' is everywhere. It's driving your hair stylist crazy. Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform to teach American Sign Language and create a validated dataset for sign language learners and ASL app developers Here's How Four Major Newsrooms Are U...

Feb 27, 2025•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 808

IM 807: My Life in Tokens - The Founders of Bee.Computer, Majorana 1, Grok 3

Interview with the founders of Bee.computer Would Paris or Jeff get a Bee? Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip A 'Teleportation' Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is Here Google's AI Efforts Marred by Turf Disputes Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3 Marcus: Elon Musk's terrifying vision for AI Richard Feynman: Can ...

Feb 20, 2025•3 hr 42 min•Ep. 807

IM 806: I'm Piffed - Musk Vs. Altman, YouTube on TV, WikiTok

Elon Musk's Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up Trump plans to nominate Brian Quintenz, a16z Crypto's head of policy to lead the CFTC Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the "primary device for YouTube viewing in the US", indicating YouTube is "the new TV" Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US FYI related: Court Unplugs AI Fair Use Defense, But Context Is Key "Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right": Meta em...

Feb 13, 2025•2 hr 24 min•Ep. 806

IM 805: Doomers, Gloomers, Bloomers, and Zoomers - Zack Kass Interview, DeepSeek Hype, EU AI Act

Interview with Zack Kass, Former GTM for Open AI Why you can deep-six the DeepSeek hype Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone OpenAI has undergone its first ever rebrand, giving fresh life to ChatGPT interactions AI Has Shown Me My Future. Here's What I've Learned. Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek Hugging Face researchers aim to build an 'open' version of OpenAI's deep research tool Anthropic makes "jailbreak" advance to stop AI models producing harmful result...

Feb 06, 2025•3 hr 46 min•Ep. 805

TWiG 804: Big Potato - Death Roulette, Influencer Voice, HillmanTok

Leo's AI Toys DeepSeek How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions Mark Zuckerberg post re: Llama 4 17th Century Death Roulette ☠️ Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates 23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money The rise of 'influencer voice': Why this TikTok creator accent is taking over the internet and maybe the world Paris' new TV Scoldy Mastodon Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Plu...

Jan 30, 2025•3 hr 43 min•Ep. 804

TWiG 803: Dadscrolling - Stargate, SkyTok, Chromebook Facial Control

"Stargate" Squares Some AI Circles Old enough to remember Trump's Foxconn factory What Stargate Means and What It Doesn't Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law SkyTok, BlueSky's TikTok, made with Surf on ActivityPub The Second Trump Presidency, Brought to You by YouTubers Google will let you control your Chromebook with your face Walgreens replaced its refrigerator doors with digitized ad-laden glass. It might become a $200 million debacle Nokia's reaction to the iPhone The An...

Jan 23, 2025•3 hr 30 min•Ep. 803