IM 873: Superman's Mustache - AI in Hollywood

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Ai, Twit, Artificial Intelligence, Technology

4.2 • 895 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

AI is upending the movie business, from Amazon's new AI Creators Fund to contract battles that just gave synthetic actors the green light in Hollywood. This episode dives into the real-world impact of generative tools on jobs, creativity, and who gets to tell the next generation of stories.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Robert Tercek

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0:00.0	It's time for intelligent machines.
0:01.6	Paris-Martin-O has the week off.
0:03.4	Jeff Jarvis is here, though, and Mike Elgin joins us as we talk to Robert Tersick.
0:08.2	He's talking about the role of AI in motion pictures.
0:11.3	He's been advising motion picture companies.
0:14.1	He says Hollywood has to get with the program.
0:17.0	That's coming up next on Intelligent Machines.
0:22.2	Podcasts you love.
0:24.1	From people you trust.
0:26.6	This is Twit.
0:30.4	This is Intelligent Machines with Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martino.
0:34.4	Episode 873, recorded Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026.
0:39.6	Superman's mustache. It's time for intelligent machines to show we talk about the latest
0:45.0	in AI robotics and all the smart things surrounding us these days. Mr. Professor Emeritus Jeff Jarvis,
0:53.9	the Emeritus Professor of Journalistic Innovation
0:55.8	at the Craig Newark Graduate School
0:57.0	of Journalism at the City University of Newark.
1:02.0	Is here, author of Hot Type, which he was,
1:05.0	you were in a hot, sweaty studio recording earlier this week.
1:09.0	I'm done two-thirds of the way through. You're not even done. No, 100 pages a day. It's not a bad pace, is it? How many pages are there? 300. Maybe write fewer pages next time. Oh, and I do lapse into Mark Twain tonight. I asked, when he said, we were texting were texting earlier this week he said I'm in the
1:28.7	studio I said well I hope you do Hal Holbrook when you do the Mark Twain quotes so you talk like
1:34.6	this a little bit I was on earlier with Jason Howell and he and I read a bit of it for him and he
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