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Intelligent Machines (Audio)

IM 851: Intelligent Machines Best of 2025 - Our Favorite Interviews from 2025

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Ai, Twit, Artificial Intelligence, Technology

4.2895 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 237 minutes

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Summary

Our interviews with:

  • Ray Kurzweil
  • Alex Hanna
  • Emily Bender
  • Mike Masnick
  • Pliny the Liberator
  • Kevin Kelly

Host: Leo Laporte

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0:00.0

Well, it's New Year's Eve, and it's time for the year-end episode of Intelligent Machines.

0:05.6

Join Jeff, Paris, and me for some of the best interviews from 2025.

0:10.1

Next.

0:13.0

Podcasts you love.

0:14.8

From people you trust.

0:17.3

This is Twit.

0:21.4

This is Intelligent Machines with Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martino, episode 851 for New Year's Eve 2025.

0:31.1

Happy New Year.

0:33.3

Well, hey, everybody, this has been a really interesting year for intelligent machines.

0:37.4

It's time for our first year-ender because the show, in a way, is, everybody. This has been a really interesting year for intelligent machines. It's time for our first

0:38.6

year ender because the show, in a way, is brand new. We started the year as this week in Google,

0:44.5

but very early on it became clear to me that really, while Google is still very interesting,

0:49.4

it's particularly in the area of artificial intelligence, and there are so many other companies

0:54.5

that are doing so many interesting things. I got together with our wonderful host, Paris,

0:59.9

Martinot and Jeff Jarvis, and I said, what if we refocused on AI and called it intelligent

1:04.7

machines? They were all in. The other thing we decided to do that's a little bit different

1:08.7

is to begin each episode with a keynote interview with somebody who's doing something very interesting or writing very interestingly about AI. And that's what this best of is going to be. The best interviews are at least as many as we could fit into a few hours from 2025.

1:28.3

Truthfully, there were many more than we could put in.

1:31.4

But after some thought, I think I've picked some of the most interesting ones.

1:35.4

Anyway, a big thanks to Paris Martineau,

1:39.5

who is such a wonderful treasure on this show,

1:42.4

to Jeff Jarvis, who's the show's heart and soul.

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