IM 816: Flappy Jeff - Harper Reed, Cluely, Bluesky Bluecheck
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 172 minutes
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Summary
- Interview with Harper Reed
- AI Horseless Carriages
- Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to 'cheat on everything'
- Cluely, the AI cheating tool's new (insane) ad:
- After 5 years of jaw clicking (TMJ), ChatGPT cured it in 60 seconds — no BS : r/ChatGPT
- China cracks down on 'autonomous' car claims after fatal accident
- Famed AI Researcher Launches Controversial Startup to Replace All Human Workers Everywhere
- Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
- Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data.
- Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
- A New Form of Verification on Bluesky
- Survey: Americans Averaged Over $700 in TikTok Shop Purchases in the Last Year
- The Washington Post partners with OpenAI on search content
- Films made with AI can win Oscars, Academy says
- The Welikia project
- 18 years ago today, Tay Zonday uploaded Chocolate Rain
- Brilliant Senate testimony in Oregon
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Harper Reed
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:01.4 | Our guest this week, Harper Reed, long-time coder. |
| 0:04.6 | He was CTO for the Obama campaign in 2012. |
| 0:08.1 | He has started and sold companies to the biggest and the best. |
| 0:12.5 | But now he's all into AI coding. |
| 0:15.3 | We're getting an insight into how AI can help everyone write code next on Intelligent Machines. |
| 0:24.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:26.3 | From people you trust. |
| 0:28.8 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:32.8 | This is Intelligent Machines, episode 816, recorded Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025. |
| 0:41.3 | Flappy Jeff. |
| 0:43.3 | It's time for intelligent machines, the show we cover the latest in, well, intelligent machines, |
| 0:50.3 | whether it's an AI in your computer or an IOT device that seems to be thinking or a robot that's |
| 0:58.0 | making your bed right now. Joining me, as always, for intelligent machines, the wonderful Paris |
| 1:03.4 | Martin. Oh, hello, Paris. Hello, Leo. With her broken lava lamp, her latest find on the streets |
| 1:10.5 | of New York. Listen, you know, sometimes you walk by a lava lamp sitting her latest find on the streets of New York. |
| 1:11.4 | Listen, you know, sometimes you walk by a lava lamp sitting on a stoop and you're like, |
| 1:15.1 | I must have this. |
| 1:16.5 | Did they put a sign that said free or were they? |
| 1:19.1 | Oh, yeah, no, it's a free. |
| 1:20.5 | That's a table that a neighbor has had out for years where they and I assume other people put free things. |
| 1:29.0 | Usually it's largely junk, but today there was a lava lamp missing a top and now it is mine. |
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