IM 847: Caked Up Football Man - Why Small AIs Are Smarter
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 180 minutes
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Summary
AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people?
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Emad Mostaque
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:02.0 | Our guest, Imad Mostak, is the founder, the guy who created stable diffusion. |
| 0:07.7 | His latest intelligent internet is creating small AI models for use in medicine and elsewhere. |
| 0:15.9 | Fascinating interview next on Intelligent Machines. |
| 0:21.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:23.3 | From people you trust. |
| 0:25.8 | This is Twit. |
| 0:29.7 | This is Intelligent Machines with Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martino, episode 847, recorded Wednesday, November 26th, 2025. Caked up football man. |
| 0:43.1 | It's time for intelligent machines. Yes, the show will recover AI, robotics, and of course, |
| 0:48.5 | all the smart little doohickeys all around us, getting smarter all the time. |
| 0:53.4 | Paris Martino is not here because this is a pre-record for this interview. Jeff Jarvis is Professor of Journalistic Innovation at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Emeritus. I forgot the Emeritus at the City University, New York. He's at Montclair State University in SUNY-Soney Brook, author of the Gutenberg Parenthesis and magazine. Oh man, I got it all in without the jingle. |
| 1:11.5 | Yay. |
| 1:13.0 | That's because Benito is not pushing the buttons today. |
| 1:16.6 | Anthony Nielsen filling in. |
| 1:22.4 | We're doing it early, a pre-record earlier this week. |
| 1:25.3 | This is why Paris can't be with us. |
| 1:26.6 | She's got a day job |
| 1:28.4 | crazy yeah i'm really excited about our guest this week amad mustach is it amad let me ask you is it |
| 1:36.4 | mustak i think so mustacue must too most that's fine okay i had all the variations |
| 1:43.4 | you you may not know the intelligent internet, I.I.D., although that is the best domain TLD I've ever seen. |
| 1:53.0 | But perhaps you will have heard of something called stability AI and stable diffusion. |
| 1:59.0 | It's amazing that this is only three years ago |
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