IM 824: Full-Body Air-Quotes - AI in Higher Education
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
- Interview with Matthew Kirschenbaum
- Chatterbox TTS - a Hugging Face Space by ResembleAI
- Here's the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
- Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition
- Oracle CEO Says OpenAI's Stargate Venture 'Not Formed Yet'
- OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder
- They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
- Smart Lamp Keeps Students On Track With Image Recognition
- Google's Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon
- Inside the AI Party at the End of the World
- AI Barbie? Mattel & OpenAI Team Up For Smart Toys & Games
- L'Oréal Taps Nvidia Tech to Supercharge Its AI Efforts
- They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
- Brooklyn TK
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Matthew Kirschenbaum
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Intelligent Machines. |
| 0:01.4 | Paris Martino is here. |
| 0:02.8 | Jeff Jarvis is here. |
| 0:03.9 | Our guest, Matthew Kirshenbaum, future professor of English and the AI at the University of Virginia. |
| 0:09.6 | We'll talk about how the tools you use change the way you write. |
| 0:13.8 | We'll teach Paris to speak fluent Shakespeare. |
| 0:17.1 | And what would you do to get a hundred million dollar a year job? |
| 0:21.5 | All that more coming up next on Intelligent Machines. |
| 0:27.2 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:29.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:31.5 | This is Twit. |
| 0:35.5 | This is Intelligent Machines, episode 824, recorded Wednesday, June 18th, 2025. |
| 0:43.7 | Full body air quotes. |
| 0:45.9 | It's time for intelligent machines, the show where we cover the latest news in intelligent machines, |
| 0:52.5 | AI, robotics, and the smart little doohickey surrounding us every day of our lives now. |
| 0:57.9 | Gosh darn it. |
| 0:58.9 | Paris Martino is here from tech journalist, investigative reporter and spy or something. |
| 1:07.7 | I don't know. |
| 1:08.7 | Oh, she's got a book. |
| 1:09.8 | We're going to talk about it. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm sorry. It might be a |
| 1:11.7 | spoiler. It's not really because it's the old book. But anyway. Well, it's a spoiler for who our guest is, |
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