IM 825: The Evil Clown of Middletown - Death By Powerpoint
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 186 minutes
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Summary
- Interview with Richard Gingras
- Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books
- Authors Are Posting TikToks to Protest AI Use in Writing—and to Prove They Aren't Doing It
- Meta, Amazon, and more want 10-year ban on states regulating AI
- Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue | TechCrunch
- OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models
- My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
- Is AI the End of Dating Apps?
- Can You Really Have a Romantic Relationship With AI?
- gist.ai
- Jeff talks about the new AI Chromebook
- Veo sinkhole videos
- Wiki Radio 📻
- Tennis robot
- The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003
- Zuck's new specs
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Richard Gingras
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:02.3 | Our guests this week, Richard Gingris, |
| 0:04.8 | just retired as Vice President of News at Google. |
| 0:08.6 | We'll talk about the future of news, AI slop and more, |
| 0:12.0 | plus a show that just never ends. |
| 0:15.1 | But it's full of goodness, including sinkholes |
| 0:19.2 | and evil clowns and all sorts of stuff. |
| 0:22.8 | Cheese, there's cheese. Next, stay here. |
| 0:28.2 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:30.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:32.5 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:36.4 | This is Intelligent Machines with Paris, Mart O and Jeff Jarvis, episode 825, recorded Wednesday, June 25th, 2025, |
| 0:47.0 | The Evil Clown of Middletown. |
| 0:50.3 | It's time for Intelligent Machines, the show where we talk about the latest in AI robotics |
| 0:56.1 | and all those little smart thing of a jiggers surrounding us everywhere. |
| 1:01.7 | There's one behind me. |
| 1:02.6 | Run there. |
| 1:03.1 | One there. |
| 1:03.5 | One there. |
| 1:04.6 | With the wonderful professor of journalistic innovation at the Emeritus at the Craig Newmark, |
| 1:12.0 | Graduate School of Journalism at the city university of New York a k. Jeff Jarvis hello Jeff. Hello there boss. |
| 1:18.8 | Now at the fine Sunni-Stony Brook and the Montclair State University author of what would Google |
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