IM 806: I'm Piffed - Musk Vs. Altman, YouTube on TV, WikiTok
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 145 minutes
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Summary
- 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 emails unsealed
- How Sam Altman outflanked Elon Musk to win over Donald Trump, including by telling Trump in a phone call that the tech industry will achieve AGI during his term
- Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition "Atrophied and Unprepared"
- The Strategy Behind Musk's $97 Billion Bid for OpenAI
- 'Doomers' Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.
- 25 Years of The Sims Turning Players Into Gods - The New York Times
- WikiTok
- BuzzFeed wants to fight AI-driven social media with a platform of its own
- Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany
Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Intelligent Machines this week, we talk about Elon's Doge drama, how YouTube is the new TV, and a Microsoft study that finds AI may be making human cognition atrophied and unprepared. |
| 0:15.0 | It's all coming up next on Intelligent Machines. |
| 0:20.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:21.9 | From people you trust. |
| 0:23.6 | This is Twit. |
| 0:26.6 | This is Intelligent Machines, episode 806, recorded February 12, 2025. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Piffed. It's time for intelligent machines. Leo is out this week, |
| 0:41.8 | but that's okay because I, Paris Martino, am here to guide you through all the news that's fit to |
| 0:46.4 | podcast about. And I won't be doing it alone. We've got Micah Sargent here. Hi, Micah. |
| 0:52.1 | Hello, Paris. So good to see you. I don't know if I've said it before, but I just love your glasses. They're so good. |
| 0:59.0 | Thank you. I this week had a pair, one of my lenses fall out of my glasses because I was furrowing my brow at the news on my phone too hard. |
| 1:09.0 | So hard that they, I mean, maybe it was unrelated, but it was, it did happen as I was |
| 1:15.2 | looking at a particularly concerning tweet and I had to go to the optometrist yesterday |
| 1:18.8 | and get it put back in. |
| 1:21.0 | We've also got Chuckler over here, uh, Jeff Jarvis. |
| 1:25.2 | Some may call him a visiting professor from Stony Brook or a distinguished fellow at |
| 1:29.8 | Montclair State University, but I call him a professor emeritus at the Craig. Craig, Craig, Craig, |
| 1:35.7 | Newark. School of Journalism. Hi, Jeff. Hello, boss. So good to see you. |
| 1:44.2 | So good to see the Croposone shift is back in better alignment today. |
| 1:51.0 | The age is down today. |
| 1:54.0 | I'm the only old one here. |
| 1:55.5 | This is good. |
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