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Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 189 minutes
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Summary
- AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine
- China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis
- US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says
- Eli Lilly signs $1.3 billion deal with Superluminal to use AI to make obesity medicines
- The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
- AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
- Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble
- Is the A.I. Sell-off the Start of Something Bigger?
- Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google
- Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: I Knew A.I. Deepfakes Were a Problem. Then I Saw One of Myself.
- 2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown
- Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)
- How to use "skibidi" and other new slang added to Cambridge Dictionary
- YouTube Is Making a Play to Host the Oscars
- Leobait: Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
- So ... is AI writing any good?
- Project Indigo
- We used AI to analyse three cities. It's true: we now walk more quickly and socialise less
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Rich Skrenta
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:02.0 | We have lots to talk about, as always, but our guest, Rich Screnta, will kick the conversation off. |
| 0:07.3 | He's the director of the Common Crawl Foundation, maybe the best possible solution to the AI conundrum we're facing. |
| 0:14.9 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:15.4 | Intelligent Machines is next. |
| 0:19.6 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:21.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:23.7 | This is Twit. |
| 0:27.9 | This is Intelligent Machines with Paris, Martin O and Jeff Jarvis, episode 833. |
| 0:34.2 | Recorded Wednesday, August 20th, 2025. |
| 0:37.7 | The most popular S3 bucket ever. |
| 0:41.5 | Intelligent machines. |
| 0:43.3 | The show we cover the latest in AI robotics and the smart air conditioners and light bulbs surrounding Paris Martin O. |
| 0:51.1 | The driving her insane. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm going crazy. |
| 0:56.1 | Paris investigative journalist with Consumer Reports, |
| 0:59.0 | wonderful to see you on a hot New York City day. |
| 1:03.1 | Honestly, it's not hot at all. |
| 1:05.3 | It's been kind of cool this week. |
| 1:07.3 | Nice. |
| 1:07.5 | She's got the refrigerator on in the house, I guess. |
| 1:10.3 | Yeah. |
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