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

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.3 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 174 minutes

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Summary

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 backed by Melania Trump
Digg is getting another revival, this time with an injection of AI
Google lets Americans delete their search results
'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash
Alexis Ohanian Joins Project Liberty's TikTok Bid
YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
Skype is shutting down after two decades
LATimes insights page
PDF example from the LATimes
Gebru: "🔇🔇🔇 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AGI AND ATTEMPTING TO BUILD IT IS A EUGENICIST, POWER CENTRALIZATION PROJECT THAT NO ONE SHOULD SUPPORT."
The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects
Masnick: Announcing Otherwise Objectionable: A Podcast Series About The Most Misunderstood Law On The Internet
18F demolished
AI.com Is for Sale. Asking Price? $100 Million
Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new 'AI Phone' priced at under $1K
Vintage Computer Festival East
Mimeartist is watching us on the big tv
Amazon's Delivery Drones Are Grounded. The Birds and Dogs of This Texas Town Are Grateful

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dr. Gary Marcus

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0:00.0	It's time for intelligent machines. Our guest today, Gary Marcus, he is an expert in AI,
0:07.9	writes an AI substack newsletter, and is also a little bit skeptical about AGI. We'll get to talk to
0:14.4	Gary and then give you all the AI news, including $200 billion expenditure on an AI center for meta, the Turing Award recipients,
0:25.9	who are also AI experts warning about the future, and the return of Dig.
0:31.9	It's all coming up next on IAM.
0:37.2	Podcasts you love.
0:39.3	From people you trust.
0:41.8	This is Twit.
0:45.6	This is Intelligent Machines with Paris, Martineau, and Jeff Jarvis.
0:50.4	Episode 809, recorded Wednesday, March 5th, 2025.
0:56.4	Fun Mustache.
0:58.8	It's time for intelligent machines, the show where we talk about.
1:03.6	Intelligent machines, they're all around us, you know.
1:06.6	Jeff Jarvis is here, Professor Emeritus of Journalistic Innovation at the Craig Newmark,
1:11.3	Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
1:15.5	Now at Montclair State University and SUNY Stony Brook.
1:19.5	Hello, Jeff.
1:20.2	Hello, boss.
1:21.6	Also, from the information, the wonderful Paris Martineau, where she covers youth issues and other things.
1:30.6	What are you working on right now?
1:32.9	I'm working on a story about Section 230 and other federal online safety bills that involve children.
1:42.5	Good, good.
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