IM 815: Fire In the Hole! - Nikita Roy, Toxic Receipts, DolphinGemma
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 156 minutes
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Summary
- Interview with Nikita Roy
- Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity
- When is 4.1 greater than 4.5? When it's OpenAI's newest model.
- Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist
- Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
- The Dark Power of Fraternities
- Monkey.zip
- High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers
- A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
- DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication
- 'She helps cheer me up': the people forming relationships with AI chatbots
- A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging
- Meta CEO Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over antitrust worries, email says
- OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are all about 'thinking with images'
- Boarding passes and checkin to be scrapped
- Pickled Popeyes
- A new season of Game Changer
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Nikita Roy
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Intelligent Machines. |
| 0:02.2 | Jeff Jarvis is back. |
| 0:03.3 | Paris Martin O is here. |
| 0:04.9 | And coming up, a very special guest. |
| 0:07.0 | We're going to talk about AI in journalism with Nikita Roy. |
| 0:12.2 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:13.2 | Intelligent Machines is next. |
| 0:17.2 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:18.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:21.5 | This is Twitter. This is Twit. |
| 0:25.5 | This is Intelligent Machines with Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martino. |
| 0:30.0 | Episode 815, recorded Wednesday, April 16th, 2025. |
| 0:35.6 | Fire in the Hole. |
| 0:37.7 | It's time for Intelligent Machines, the show where we talk about the latest in AI, machine |
| 0:43.7 | learning, robotics, and even those little intelligent machines you got all around |
| 0:47.4 | the house that turn on the lights when you go, hey, lights on. |
| 0:52.2 | Does that count as an intelligent machine? Jeff Jarvis is back we missed you he was not at |
| 0:57.8 | the salem witch trials he was in salem oregon i was i was being tried yeah so so uh how did that go |
| 1:04.3 | what were you there for i was testifying against more dumb legislation from the newspaper industry |
| 1:09.6 | tried to hold up the technology industry. |
| 1:13.0 | Did we win in California? |
| 1:16.0 | I think so. |
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