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

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Artificial Intelligence, Ai, Alphabet, Youtube, Twit, News, Technology, Google, Android, Tech News, Chrome

4.3 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

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 Using AI
Google sued by Chegg over AI Overviews hurting traffic and revenue
Perplexity wants to reinvent the web browser with AI—but there's fierce competition
Perplexity releases a censorship-free variant of Deepseek R1
To Identify Suspect in Idaho Killings, F.B.I. Used Restricted Consumer DNA Data
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking Apple to build iCloud backdoor
Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's "AI for sweatshops" demo goes viral
Grok 3's "sexy mode"
Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk
When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works
Nebraska Man Struggles to Change Daughter's Name From 'Unakite Thirteen Hotel'
Touch grass
Bracket City

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Stephen Wolfram

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0:00.0	It's time for intelligent machines.
0:02.0	Hello, everybody.
0:02.7	Jeff Jarvis is here.
0:03.8	So is Paris Martino.
0:05.5	As usual, we're going to start the show with an interview with one of the smartest people in the world.
0:12.7	And this guy's the real deal.
0:14.3	Stephen Wolfram next on Intelligent Machines.
0:19.9	Podcasts you love. From people you trust this is twit this is intelligent machines episode
0:31.3	eight hundred eight recorded wednesday february 26th twenty 2025, Stephen Wolfram.
0:38.9	It's time for intelligent machines, the show where we talk about, well, intelligent
0:43.5	machines with Jeff Jarvis, professor of journalistic innovation emeritus at the, I better do it
0:51.8	now, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at this. Now I'm going to do it now. Craig Newmark graduate school of journalism at this
0:54.5	Senate University of New York.
0:57.6	Now at Montclair State University and SUNY Stony Brook. Great to see you, Jeff.
1:02.1	Good to see you. Also Paris Martino reports at theinformation.com where she covers youth
1:10.2	matters, among other things. You do everything sub youth matters among other things you do
1:13.2	everything among other things yeah among other things hey I am so excited about
1:18.1	our guest today Stephen Wolf from one of the smartest people in the world
1:24.7	he was a child I did not know this about you, Stephen, but
1:27.6	and I hope it's not wrong because I asked AI. A child prodigy at the age of 15. You published your
1:34.2	first scientific paper studied at Eden in Oxford before earning your PhD in theoretical physics
1:40.0	from Cal of California Institute of Technology at the age of 20.
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