IM 815: Fire In the Hole! – Nikita Roy, Toxic Receipts, DolphinGemma

IM 815: Fire In the Hole! – Nikita Roy, Toxic Receipts, DolphinGemma

Interview with Nikita Roy Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity When is 4.1 greater than 4.5? When it’s OpenAI’s newest model. Google DeepMind Is Hiring a ‘Post-AGI’ Research Scientist Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? The Dark Power of Fraternities Monkey.zip High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper…

IM 814: Chesterton’s Fence – Cory Doctorow, Fake Meta Benchmakrs, AI Therapy

IM 814: Chesterton’s Fence – Cory Doctorow, Fake Meta Benchmakrs, AI Therapy

Interview with Cory Doctorow AI hasn’t killed radiology, but it is changing it Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks Man Employs A.I. Avatar in Legal Appeal, and Judge Isn’t Amused Shopify Says No New Hires Unless AI Can’t Do the Job The (artificial intelligence) therapist can see you now The 35th anniversary of Twin Peaks…

IM 813: The Optimist – Keach Hagey, Twitter Leak, Skylight

IM 813: The Optimist – Keach Hagey, Twitter Leak, Skylight

Interview with Keach Hagey The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI OpenAI’s Latest Funding Round Comes With a $20 Billion Catch Startup Founder Claims Elon Musk Is Stealing the Name ‘Grok’ Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His A.I. Start-Up xAI Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is…

IM 812: A Choir of Sentient Cabbages – Gary Rivlin, AGI Test, Section 230

IM 812: A Choir of Sentient Cabbages – Gary Rivlin, AGI Test, Section 230

Interview with Gary Rivlin A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models “KI ist nur ein Werkzeug. Jedes Werkzeug kann missbraucht werden” Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’ From the ChatGPT community on Reddit Google is rolling out Gemini’s real-time AI video features 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne…

IM 811: Flippin’ the Bird – Anthony Aguirre, AI Safety, Hollywood vs. AI

IM 811: Flippin’ the Bird – Anthony Aguirre, AI Safety, Hollywood vs. AI

Interview with Anthony Aguirre The NIST’s new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of “AI safety” and “AI fairness” and prioritizes “reducing ideological bias” in models Jensen Huang GTC Keynote in 16 minutes Nvidia and Yum! Brands team up to expand AI ordering Google Is Officially Replacing Assistant With Gemini – Slashdot Google’s…

IM 810: A Liter of Computronium – Ray Kurzweil, Amazon’s Robots, Cheating AI

IM 810: A Liter of Computronium – Ray Kurzweil, Amazon’s Robots, Cheating AI

Interview with Ray Kurzweil Liquid eggs? NYC bodegas have new strategy to keep bacon, egg and cheese prices down Google announces Gemini Robotics for building general purpose robots DeepMind’s latest AI model can help robots fold origami and close Ziploc bags An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated…

IM 809: Fun Mustache – Gary Marcus, Digg Returns, AI.com

IM 809: Fun Mustache – Gary Marcus, Digg Returns, AI.com

Interview with Gary Marcus Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence Meta Discusses AI Data Center Project That Could Cost $200 Billion Satya Nadella Argues AI’s True Value Will Come When It Finds Killer App Akin To Email or Excel Google’s co-founder tells AI staff to stop “building nanny products 27-Year-Old EXE Became…

IM 808: Stephen Wolfram – AI Inspo, Nvidia Signs, Grok Sexy Mode

IM 808: Stephen Wolfram – AI Inspo, Nvidia Signs, Grok Sexy Mode

Interview with Stephen Wolfram OpenAI now serves 400M users every week Nvidia’s Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech’s A.I. Boom Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus Artists release silent album in protest against AI using their work AI ‘inspo’ is everywhere. It’s driving your hair stylist crazy. Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform…

IM 807: My Life in Tokens – The Founders of Bee.Computer, Majorana 1, Grok 3

IM 807: My Life in Tokens – The Founders of Bee.Computer, Majorana 1, Grok 3

Interview with the founders of Bee.computer Would Paris or Jeff get a Bee? Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip A ‘Teleportation’ Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is Here Google’s AI Efforts Marred by Turf Disputes…

IM 806: I’m Piffed – Musk Vs. Altman, YouTube on TV, WikiTok

IM 806: I’m Piffed – Musk Vs. Altman, YouTube on TV, WikiTok

Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up Trump plans to nominate Brian Quintenz, a16z Crypto’s head of policy to lead the CFTC Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the US”, indicating YouTube is “the new TV” Thomson Reuters Wins First…