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Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart phones and robots. The Intelligent Machines podcast explores the most exciting revolution humanity has ever seen, filled with promise and peril. More than ever we need to understand what these new devices will bring to our lives and how to make best use of them as the 21st century unfolds. On this show you'll meet the AI pioneers, inventors, and innovators who are about to disrupt every aspect of modern life. You'll learn what's real and what's hype, and you'll come away with a deep understanding of the intelligent future that awaits us all. You can join Club TWiT for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes every Wednesday.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Politics & Government
Episodes
  • IM 871: CTRL-F Techno King - Google's Search Overhaul
    May 21 2026

    Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security.

    • Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter
    • Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter
    • SpaceX Filing Starts Countdown to Massive IPO
    • Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything
    • Google's Gemini Spark is an agentic AI assistant - Engadget
    • Anthropic's Co-Founder to Launch Encyclical on AI With Pope Leo
    • (21) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time." / X
    • Most U.S. doctors are quietly using this AI tool. Few patients know about it.
    • Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI's Products in Latest Shakeup
    • Amazon's Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated 'Podcasts' Featuring Chats Between Two Robot 'Co-Hosts'
    • AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers
    • Geoffrey Fowler and the Launch of the Youth AI Safety Institute
    • We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs
    • The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
    • Lake Tahoe Power Crisis: How AI Data Centers Are Cutting Power to 50,000 Residents
    • What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? The coolest art social experiment I've seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS
    • Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
    • OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger's tokenmaxxing
    • 'Obvious markers of AI': doubts raised over winner of short story prize
    • Man drives Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake
    • Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything
    • Sports Illustrated Just Deleted Every Article by One of Its Writers After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
    • The great digital media valuation collapse
    • Sperm racing

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Frederic Rivain

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    2 hrs and 54 mins
  • IM 870: Meet Me In Alaska - Are AI Content Filters Changing What We Read?
    May 14 2026

    British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.

    • Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
    • Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19
    • Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
    • Students boo AI at commencement: video
    • Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying'
    • (20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X
    • NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
    • Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears
    • Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
    • Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push
    • VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels.
    • Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
    • Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online
    • Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year
    • Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools
    • The new Wild West of AI kids' toys
    • Internet Archive Switzerland
    • Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
    • Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out.
    • The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre
    • AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies
    • Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
    • Hallucinopedia
    • Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the 'Class of 1996'
    • Sand shortage

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker

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    2 hrs and 44 mins
  • IM 869: My Sentience is Going Up - Chatbots in Charge
    May 7 2026

    Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt reveals how a homegrown AI sidekick helps manage billions of hacked credentials, but even the smartest bots aren't immune to hallucinations and headaches.

    • White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
    • Elon Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models
    • Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.
    • OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant update to make ChatGPT smarter with fewer emoji
    • Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX \ Anthropic
    • Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. https://t.co/qFgCivQTTi
    • We just launched the @Link CLI: https://t.co/nAjPpC2lbb. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time.
    • When Daawkins met Claude - UnHerd
    • I am one of those whose research points to the conclusion that the mind is computable.
    • Say Hello to the Internet of AI
    • The greatest capital misallocation in history?
    • AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog
    • China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.
    • Academy announces major overhaul to rules
    • AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses
    • The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs
    • Have LLMs improved patient outcomes?
    • As workers worry about AI, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI is 'creating an enormous number of jobs'
    • Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
    • California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
    • Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
    • 'This is fine' creator says AI startup stole his art
    • Google DeepMind Takes Minority Stake in Maker of 'Eve Online'
    • He Couldn't Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
    • Empty Screenings
    • Furwall by Ollie Wagner
    • DataCenter.FM 🤖🔊 The sound of AI
    • So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday's Internet
    • The Python Hunt
    • News Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl Over Unauthorized Use of Content
    • Vanishing Culture from the Internet Archive
    • Gigantic Gutenberg Bible page
    • Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Troy Hunt

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    2 hrs and 29 mins
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