IM 820: Watch Your Wallet Jony - The Environmental Impact of LLMs
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 159 minutes
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Summary
- Interview with Kate O'Neill
- Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
- Personal context is Google's big advantage in AI
- Google is replacing the exec in charge of Search and ads
- Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
- Google's Gemini AI is coming to Volvo cars
- We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI'
- OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
- China begins assembling its supercomputer in space
- The environmental impact of LLMs ranked
- NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing?
- Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified
- Google Challenges Meta With Smarter Glasses
- Watch Me Try Google's Live Language Translator. It's Wild.
- Google's Sergey Brin: 'I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass'
- How Kara Swisher Scaled Even Higher
- No, Graduates: AI Hasn't Ended Your Career Before It Starts
- AI Discovers Suspected Trigger of Alzheimer's, And Maybe a Treatment
- OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive's AI devices startup for $6.4 billion
- Gingers are Black
- Who is the "Tech TV hottie" mentioned in Kimya Dawson's 2004 song from the Juno soundtrack???
- Some great new Apple Podcast reviews make mention of a certain jingle...
- New details emerge in death of Texas Renaissance Festival king, George Coulam
- Lego cat
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Kate O'Neill (Tech Humanist)
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:03.0 | Leo Leport here. |
| 0:04.0 | Jeff Jarvis is also here, Paris Martino. |
| 0:06.0 | Our special guest this hour is a tech humanist, Kate O'Neill. |
| 0:11.0 | She's written a book called What Matters Next? |
| 0:13.0 | A Leaders Guide to Making Human Friendly Tech Decisions. |
| 0:16.0 | How does AI fit in with that? |
| 0:18.0 | We'll find out next on Intelligent Machines. |
| 0:26.3 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. |
| 0:29.1 | This is Twit. |
| 0:38.2 | This is Intelligent Machines, Episode 820, recorded Wednesday, May 21st, 2025. |
| 0:40.2 | Watch your wallet, Johnny. |
| 0:50.5 | It's time for intelligent machines, the show where we look at the intelligent machines all around us, AI, robotics, even nowadays, your microwave oven. |
| 0:56.9 | Jeff Jarvis is here, Professor of Journalism emeritus at the City University of New York. |
| 1:05.2 | Huh? Where? Where was that? At the City University of New York. He's also currently at Sunni-Stoney Brook and the Montclair State University, author of The Web We Weave, his latest, the Gutenberg |
| 1:10.6 | parenthesis. You can see them latest, the Gutenberg parenthesis. |
| 1:11.3 | You could see them all on the shelf to his left. |
| 1:15.0 | Thank you, Jeff, for being here. |
| 1:16.9 | Dressed on black. |
| 1:18.4 | Yes. |
| 1:19.2 | Also with us from tech journalists from Parts Unknown, Paris Martineau at Paris |
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