IM 838: Fat Bears Live Now! - Inside the AI Gold Rush
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 169 minutes
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Summary
Are we repeating the mistakes of the dot-com boom with today's AI gold rush? Intelligent Machines tackles why runaway spending, circular investments, and looming government deals could mean a hard reckoning for tech's biggest promise yet.
- Interview with Steven Levy
- Levy: Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
- Steven Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
- OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
- Can We Afford AI?
- Meta's AI system, Llama, has been approved for use by U.S. federal agencies
- China's DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train
- Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
- Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
- Former NotebookLM devs' new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research
- Fat Bear Week is back—and the bears are bigger than ever
- * "My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community
- ChatGPT is 3-8% of Google's search volume
- The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
- Data-Driven Analysis of Text-Conditioned AI-Generated Music: A Case Study with Suno and Udio
- The LLM Has Left The Chat: Evidence of Bail Preferences in Large Language Models
- More! Shrimp!
- Wounded robots
- Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Steven Levy
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:02.1 | Jeff Jarvis is here, Paris-Martineau, our guests this time, the wonderful Stephen Levy, |
| 0:07.2 | probably the dean of technology journalism in America, editor at large and wired the author of so many great books, |
| 0:13.1 | and recently a number of articles about AI. |
| 0:16.8 | Stephen Levy, coming up next on I Am. |
| 0:21.7 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:23.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:26.1 | This is Twit. |
| 0:31.6 | This is Intelligent Machines with Paris, Martin O and Jeff Jarvis. |
| 0:35.8 | Episode 838, recorded Wednesday, September 24th, |
| 0:40.4 | 2025. Fat Bears live now. It's time for intelligent machines. Yay. The show we cover the latest in |
| 0:48.6 | AI, robotics, and all the smart do-dads surrounding us these days uh joining us right now paris martineau |
| 0:55.6 | investigative reporter from consumer reports hello paris hello leo good to see you jeff jarvis is also |
| 1:03.2 | here emeritus professor of journalistic innovation at the craig new mark graduate school of |
| 1:07.7 | journalism at the city University of New York. |
| 1:12.6 | Now at Montclair State University and SUNY, Stony Brook, the author of the Gutenberg |
| 1:16.7 | parentheses and magazine. |
| 1:18.6 | I thought they gave you a nice plug on CNN last week. |
| 1:22.6 | He rushed out of here to be, spend the entire hour debating Scott Jennings and Scott Walker, |
| 1:30.4 | you poor fella. |
| 1:31.3 | I'd be exhausted after all that. |
| 1:33.4 | Yeah. |
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