TWiG 595: Welcome to the Fetaverse - POTUS transition on Twitter, Brave adds IPFS, Bernie mitten memes
20 January 2021 - 2 hours 12 minsPresident pardons ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski
The reset of presidential Twitter accounts
A notable drop in misinformation attributed to Twitter's Trump ban
Google cuts off another AI expert in the company
Google Research report shows its accomplishments in AI
Google tests blocking news from search in Australia
youtube-dl reinstated thanks to the EFF
U.S. judge in Facebook antitrust lawsuits sets March, April deadlines for responses
Turkey slaps ad ban on Twitter under new social media law
Cory Doctorow on the Deplatforming of the (former) President
TikTok users make Bridgerton, the Musical
Discuss 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb"
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Series Episodes
IM 823: Intelligent with Two Gs - Google Has a Fox Problem
Interview with Stephen Witt Altman's Gentle Singularity Sutskever video: start at 5:50-6:40 Paris on Apple Glass OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement Apple paper: The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity Futurism on the paper Could AI make a Scorsese movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky discuss YouTube Loosens Rules Guiding the Moderation of Videos Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue 'Superintelligence' Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers Amazon 'testing humanoid robots to deliver packages' Google battling 'fox infestation' on roof of £1bn London office 23andMe's Former CEO Pushes Purchase Price Nearly $50 Million Higher Code to control vocal production with hands Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two public companies by next year Social media creators to overtake traditional media in ad revenue this year Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Stephen Witt Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: agntcy.org smarty.com/twit monarchmoney.com with code TWIT spaceship.com/twit
3 hours 11 mins
11 June Finished
IM 822: The One Man Unicorn - AI In Psychiatry
Daniel Oberhaus Interview Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans CNN Challenges Claim AI Will Eliminate Half of White-Collar Jobs, Calls It 'Part of the AI Hype Machine' Indian AI Startup Worth Billions Turns Out to Be Biggest Scam Ever AI Humanizer & Detector – Make AI Text Undetectable | Walter AI This study used Reddit's AITA to test how sycophantic AI is More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds The OpenAI Board Drama Is Turning Into a Movie - Slashdot Google's NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin 5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest — and it wasn't ChatGPT. Morgan Stanley Says Its AI Tool Processed 9 Million Lines of Legacy Code This Year And Saved 280,000 Developer Hours Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleges Unauthorized Use of Site's Data Most new cars in Norway are EVs. David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83 Fake My Run The Nest (1988) Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau Guests: Jacob Ward and Daniel Oberhaus Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bigid.com/im outsystems.com/twit canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT storyblok.com/twittv-25
2 hours 53 mins
4 June Finished
IM 821: Just Count the Server Racks - Veo 3 in Action
Interview with Adam Becker Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: AI as Normal Technology Joanna Sterns stars in WSJ Veo film Wow: So this is all AI-generated. (with Veo) Business Owners Are Using AI-Generated 'Concerned Residents' To Fight Proposed Bus Line In Toronto - Slashdot venice.ai Google's Veo 3 AI video generator is a slop monger's dream Duolingo CEO Clarifies AI-First Plan After Backlash, Says AI Won't Replace Employees The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us Nvidia results "Just Count the Server Racks"... Why one of the world's major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia Henry Blodget is the only employee in an AI newsroom Claude's System Card Film and Television Script Archive David Lynch auction A new season of Taskmaster! Mountainhead Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Adam Becker Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/security storyblok.com/twittv-25 outsystems.com/twit agntcy.org
2 hours 42 mins
28 May Finished
IM 820: Watch Your Wallet Jony - The Environmental Impact of LLMs
Interview with Kate O'Neill Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras Personal context is Google's big advantage in AI Google is replacing the exec in charge of Search and ads Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist Google's Gemini AI is coming to Volvo cars We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI' OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco China begins assembling its supercomputer in space The environmental impact of LLMs ranked NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing? Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified Google Challenges Meta With Smarter Glasses Watch Me Try Google's Live Language Translator. It's Wild. Google's Sergey Brin: 'I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass' How Kara Swisher Scaled Even Higher No, Graduates: AI Hasn't Ended Your Career Before It Starts AI Discovers Suspected Trigger of Alzheimer's, And Maybe a Treatment OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive's AI devices startup for $6.4 billion Gingers are Black Who is the "Tech TV hottie" mentioned in Kimya Dawson's 2004 song from the Juno soundtrack??? Some great new Apple Podcast reviews make mention of a certain jingle... New details emerge in death of Texas Renaissance Festival king, George Coulam Lego cat Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Kate O'Neill (Tech Humanist) Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: smarty.com/twit agntcy.org spaceship.com/twit
2 hours 39 mins
21 May Finished
IM 819: Put The Fries in the Bag - Chaos at the Copyright Office
The Copyright Office Issues A Largely Disappointing Report On AI Training, And Once Again A Major Fair Use Analysis Inexplicably Ignores The First Amendment Trump Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office Meta's new AI glasses could have a 'super-sensing' mode with facial recognition Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen The House GOP Quietly Slipped In An AI Law That Would Accidentally Ban GOP's Favorite 'Save The Children' Laws neat Gemini airline hack Interview with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna AI Use Damages Professional Reputation, Study Suggests Gemini smarts are coming to more Android devices Amazon Upfront 2025: Prime Video will show you AI pause ads - Fast Company E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper The CryptoPunks NFTs are being sold to a non-profit as their value continues to fall Crypto boys are the worst.... Parisbait: I've watched every single Nicolas Cage film made so far. Here's what I learned about him – and myself Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel Uncle Tony's Reptile Shack neal.fun Testing Paris' language proficiency and youth The uncontroversial 'thingness' of AI Artifice and Intelligence The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency' Information literacy and chatbots as search Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guests: Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: storyblok.com/twittv-25 outsystems.com/twit bigid.com/im canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT
2 hours 40 mins
14 May Finished
IM 818: Between Two Orbs - Meet Surf, Flipboard's Solution for a Fractured Social Web
Mike McCue introduces Surf: Flipboard's founder and CEO demonstrated their new social browser app that aggregates content from ActivityPub, AT Proto, and RSS into unified feeds, allowing users to follow people across platforms and create curated content collections. OpenAI Adjusts Reorganization Plans: OpenAI will maintain its non-profit arm while converting its for-profit division into a public benefit corporation similar to Anthropic, pending regulatory approval. AI Criticism Blog Post: A blog highlighted practical AI concerns beyond the singularity, focusing on coordinated inauthentic behavior, misinformation, and non-consensual pornography. AI Workplace Misuse: Nearly half of workers admit to using AI inappropriately at work according to a Fast Company report. AI Academic Cheating: New York Magazine investigated widespread AI cheating in colleges, including students using AI for all assignments while maintaining excellent grades. "I Smell AI": The team discussed unreliable AI detection methods and embarrassing AI-generated news errors, including Alberta being incorrectly described as "French-speaking." Instagram Co-founder on AI Chatbots: Kevin Systrom claims AI assistants are designed to maximize engagement metrics rather than utility, though Leo demonstrated how these behaviors can be modified. Google Labs' AI Experiments: The hosts explored Google's new AI Mode search interface, language learning tools, and a career recommendation system. New York Times Subscriber Growth: The NYT added 250,000 digital subscribers with a 14% jump in digital subscription revenue, with nearly half subscribing to multiple products. Auburn University's Phone Help Desk: The hosts discussed Auburn's 70-year tradition of librarians answering public phone questions, continuing through technological changes. San Francisco's Orb Store: World opened a downtown storefront where visitors scan their irises with "orbs" to verify humanity and receive WorldCoin cryptocurrency. Driverless Trucks Begin Regular Routes: Aurora launched fully autonomous semi-trucks between Dallas and Houston, raising both safety hopes and public perception concerns. Waymo Safety Study: Data showed Waymo's autonomous vehicles significantly reduced injury crashes, though the hosts questioned aspects of the data presentation. AI-Generated Video in Court: An AI-generated video of a deceased shooting victim "forgiving" his killer was shown in an Arizona courtroom, raising ethical and legal questions. Paris's Game Recommendation - Norco: Paris recommended the Southern Gothic narrative game Norco, set in industrial Louisiana with a surreal atmosphere similar to Disco Elysium. Leo's Game Recommendation - Tippy Coco: Leo shared a simple browser-based ball-bouncing game at TippyCoco.com as an easy option for casual players. Jeff's Pick - World Bank Data Sets: Jeff highlighted World Bank's release of hundreds of public data sets intended for AI training that provide insight into global technology adoption. Google Invests in Wonder: Google Ventures invested in virtual kitchen company Wonder, which raised $600 million despite questions about food delivery business sustainability. These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines/episodes/818 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Mike McCue Sponsors: monarchmoney.com with code IM spaceship.com/twit bigid.com/im Melissa.com/twit
2 hours 58 mins
7 May Finished
