IM 856: SecretlyBriti.sh - From Humans to Hive Minds
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 165 minutes
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Summary
The podcast dives into the explosive advances in agentic AI, where developers and even Fortune 100 companies are racing to use powerful tools like Gastown, despite their unfinished and sometimes dangerous edges. If you thought ChatGPT was a revolution, wait until you hear how developers are orchestrating armies of AIs with real-world impact.
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- Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing.
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- OpenAI will retire several models, including GPT-4o, from ChatGPT next month
- Jensen Huang says Nvidia would love to back an OpenAI IPO, and there's 'no drama' with Sam Altman
- Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features
- Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army
- HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims
- French office of Elon Musk's X raided by Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit
- An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account
- Darren Aronofsky's AI Studio Used Artificial Intelligence Tools for Revolutionary War Animated Series — but Hired Human Actors to Voice Founding Fathers
- Forget Hinge or Bumble. This App Promises a Personal AI Matchmaker
- Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints
- Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
- Anthropic Takes Aim at OpenAI's ChatGPT in Super Bowl Ad Debut
- Move to Ban Social Media for Kids Gains Traction in Europe
- The Matrix Resurrections Is a Messy, Imperfect Triumph
- The Thatcher Effect and other Optical Toys
- Fascinating Research: AIs are highly inconsistent [i.e., random] when recommending brands or products
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Steve Yegge
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. We're going to talk to Steve Yeaggy this week. He is the author of one of the coolest clod code add-ons, Gastown. We'll talk about AI memory, how to get your AI coder to go farther, and what Polkats have to do with Deacons and mayors. Next on Intelligent Machines. |
| 0:24.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:25.9 | From people you trust. |
| 0:28.4 | This is Twit. |
| 0:32.4 | This is Intelligent Machines with Paris, Martinoa, and Jeff Jarvis. |
| 0:36.4 | Episode 856, recorded Wednesday, February 4th, 2026, secretly British. |
| 0:44.0 | It's time for Intelligent Machines, the show we cover the latest AI news, robotics. |
| 0:49.9 | We talk about smart people and smart things all around you, |
| 0:53.3 | and I am so pleased to welcome our very smart team. |
| 0:56.5 | Paris Martino investigative reporter for Consumer Reports. |
| 1:00.1 | Salute! |
| 1:01.2 | I'm here and ready to podcast. |
| 1:04.2 | And I think you just saw the Melania movie, and you probably want to give us your review. |
| 1:08.6 | Oh, my. |
| 1:09.4 | I was there. |
| 1:10.5 | Well, I tried to be there, |
| 1:11.4 | but you know, it was just sold out. No room in the end for Paris Martin. Oh, well, we'll |
| 1:19.3 | have to hold that review for later. Also with us, Professor of Journalistic Innovation |
| 1:23.8 | Emeritus at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City, New York. |
| 1:28.3 | Newmark, it's back. |
| 1:31.3 | And he's a adjunct something or other at Montclair State and of course at Sunni-Stony Brook, author |
| 1:38.3 | of the Gutenberg parenthesis. What would Google do? I should bring that up this time because |
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