IM 834: Gewgaw - Google's 'Nano Banana' Model
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 161 minutes
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Summary
- Interview with M.G. Siegler.
- Google improves Gemini AI image editing with 'Nano Banana' model.
- THIS is why large language models can understand the world.
- Building a16z's personal AI workstation with four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell Max-Q GPUs.
- Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5.
- Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year.
- We must build AI for people; not to be a person.
- AI 'deadbots' are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for monetization.
- AI robots are helping South Korea's seniors feel less alone.
- College student's "time travel" AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history.
- Forget Uber Eats—Chipotle's latest delivery option might shock you.
- There are two types of dishwasher people.
- Would you go on a tour of your local Amazon warehouse?
- Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content.
- Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated 'freelancer'.
- The South Slope Derby.
- Checking in on the Internet Roadtrip.
- TikTok.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: M.G. Siegler
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. Paris and Jeff are here. Our guest this week, M.G. Siegler, |
| 0:04.9 | longtime venture capitalist with Google. He now writes about AI for his own newsletter, Spyglass. |
| 0:10.4 | He's a great interview, and he's coming up next. Then we will talk about the new Google Image Model. |
| 0:15.8 | We play quite a bit with it. It's called Nano Banana. And how do you load the dishwasher? I guarantee you, |
| 0:22.3 | somebody thinks you're doing it wrong. All that more coming up next on intelligent machines. |
| 0:29.3 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twit. |
| 0:46.6 | This is Intelligent Machines with Paris Martino and Jeff Jarvis, episode 834, recorded Wednesday, August 27th, 2025. |
| 0:48.0 | Googhaw. |
| 0:55.4 | It's time for intelligent machines, the show where we talk about AI and robotics and all the smart little doodads and g jaws surrounding you these days and all of us these days speaking of |
| 1:01.4 | surrounding i'm surrounded right now by paris martineau investigative reporter consumer |
| 1:06.3 | reports hi paris hi leo don look now. I'm in your wall. |
| 1:11.6 | It's been, it's only been a few days. You were great on Twit on Sunday. Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:17.6 | Always lovely to return to the mothership. Yeah. I noted at the time that that's where we first found you was as a regular on Twitter. And I said, when Stacey left to this show, |
| 1:28.2 | I said, gosh, I'd love, I don't think Paris will do it. But let me ask. Let me ask. And you did. |
| 1:32.9 | And I'm so glad. Of course. Now, who's that man who was playing a speech to text thing into the |
| 1:38.9 | microphone? Because I was correcting Leo, he was doing a gif-jiff-jiff thing to another word is it gie gaw gougaw |
| 1:47.9 | who are you asking i don't even know what we're referencing to be honest i said all the do hickies |
| 1:54.1 | and g jaws surrounding you well what do you say g-wiz or g-wis i said i used to say g-gaws but i certainly don't say g-jaws |
| 2:04.6 | that's completely so what if it's g gauze did you ever think of that say it what are you playing |
| 2:10.6 | he's saying gau-gog he's saying you wrong gougaw guga what the hell's that that's not what i say gigaw but it's spelled he says c gougar and who are you oh hi i'm the pedant the pedant jeff he's a professor it's okay he's a laugh jeff jarvis that goes with the job title emeritus professor is even |
| 2:35.6 | worse than professor ameritist got to the point now i don't even have to say it |
| 2:43.2 | emeritus professor of journalistic innovation at the craig new mark graduate school of journalism at |
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