IM 810: A Liter of Computronium - Ray Kurzweil, Amazon's Robots, Cheating AI

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.3 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0	It's time for intelligent machines.
0:02.0	Jeff and Paris are here.
0:03.5	I'm here and our special guest is here.
0:06.3	Ray Kurzweil, the author of so many great books about the singularity, his latest.
0:11.6	The singularity is nearer when we merge with AI.
0:16.2	His vision of the future is mind-boggling.
0:20.0	It's coming up next on intelligent machines.
0:24.9	Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twitter.
0:33.4	This is Intelligent Machines with Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martino.
0:38.2	Episode 810, recorded March 12th, 2025, a leader of computronium.
0:46.0	It's time for Intelligent Machines, the show where we cover the latest in artificial intelligence.
0:52.0	We also talk with the most interesting people in the field.
0:55.2	Joining me right now, of course, Jeff Jarvis, Professor Emeritus, I forget.
1:01.4	Journalistic innovation at the Craig Newmark's Graduate School of Journalism at the City
1:06.4	University of New York.
1:08.0	He's not there anymore anyway.
1:09.6	We just do it so we could play the jingle.
1:10.9	He's now at Montclair State University and SUNY Stony Brook. Hi, Jeff. Hi there, boss. How are you?
1:16.5	Author of the Gutenberg parenthesis. I'm excited. We have the best guest ever coming up. Also with us,
1:22.5	Paris Martineau. Oh, you got the book. Good. The information, Paris writes for the weekend about youth issues or whatever the hell's on her mind, right? Online child safety and tech and politics and all that fun jazz. My copy of Ray's book is woefully behind me. You can't reach it. I mean, it's on the bookshelf. I could go run for it.
1:45.7	No, no, no, no. I've read it. We all have copies, and that's the most important. It's true.
1:49.6	The Ray we're referring to is, well, really, in some ways, the spiritual father of this show, because he wrote the book, the Age of Intelligent Machines that gave birth to the name Ray Kurzweil.
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