IM 844: Poob Has It For You - Spiky Superintelligence vs. Generality

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Ai, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Twit

4.2 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

Is today's AI stuck as a "spiky superintelligence," brilliant at some things but clueless at others? This episode pulls back the curtain on a lunchroom full of AI researchers trading theories, strong opinions, and the next big risks on the path to real AGI.

Why "Everyone Dies" Gets AGI All Wrong
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Google's First AI Ad Avoids the Uncanny Valley by Casting a Turkey
Coca-Cola Is Trying Another AI Holiday Ad. Executives Say This Time Is Different
Sam Altman shuts down question about how OpenAI can commit to spending $1.4 trillion while earning billions: 'Enough'
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Perplexity's new AI tool aims to simplify patent research
Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do
Amazon and Perplexity have kicked off the great AI web browser fight
Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane
Dictionary.com names 6-7 as 2025's word of the year
Tech companies don't care that students use their AI agents to cheat
The Morning After: Musk talks flying Teslas on Joe Rogan's show
The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden
TikTok announces its first awards show in the US
Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space
Anthropic Projects $70 Billion in Revenue, $17 Billion in Cash Flow in 2028
American Museum of Tort Law
Dog Chapel - Dog Mountain
Nicvember masterlist
Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeremy Berman

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0:00.0	It's time for intelligent machines.
0:02.0	Paris and Jeffer here are guest this hour, Jeremy Berman.
0:06.0	He is a post-training researcher at reflection.a.i.
0:10.0	And his AI recently just got the highest score on the ARC AGI test.
0:16.0	How did he do it? What is post-training and what's the future of AGI? All coming up next on
0:23.0	intelligent machines.
0:27.1	Podcasts you love. From people you trust.
0:31.3	This is Twit.
0:35.5	This is Intelligent Machines with Paris Martineau and Jeff Jarvis.
0:39.8	Episode 844 recorded Wednesday, November 5th, 2025.
0:45.1	Poob has it for you.
0:47.2	It's time for intelligent machines, the show we cover the latest in artificial intelligence and robotics
0:52.2	and the smart little doohhickies surrounding us all.
0:56.2	Look, I've got smart do-hickies everywhere in the house.
0:59.9	Jeff Jarvis is here, Professor Emeritus of Journalistic Innovation at the Craig Narmerk Graduate School of City.
1:05.1	You almost had it, Leo.
1:10.7	I do. We made a deal that if I got through the end, that we wouldn't play the jingle. Jeff is the author of the Gutenberg parentheses and magazine, a history of magazines. And when does Hot Type come out? Because I'm loving it. June. June. I have to wait till June. Oh. Tell me if if that's very good. Tell me if I got anything up.
1:27.6	Tell me if I got anything wrong. It's got to be warm weather for hot type.
1:31.3	It's just going to have a beach side launch party, right?
1:34.1	That word smithing comes to you from Paris Martineau, who is a investigative journalist to consumer reports. Hello, Paris.
1:42.0	Hello, Paris. Come, Paris. Como's it?
1:45.5	So, we have a very interesting guest joining us for, as we often do, the beginning of the show.
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