Intelligent Machines 838: Fat Bears Live Now!
25 September 2025

Intelligent Machines 838: Fat Bears Live Now!

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Are we repeating the mistakes of the dot-com boom with today's AI gold rush? Intelligent Machines tackles why runaway spending, circular investments, and looming government deals could mean a hard reckoning for tech's biggest promise yet.


    Interview with Steven Levy
    Levy: Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
    Steven Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
    OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
    Can We Afford AI?
    Meta's AI system, Llama, has been approved for use by U.S. federal agencies
    China's DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train
    Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
    Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
    Former NotebookLM devs' new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research
    Fat Bear Week is back—and the bears are bigger than ever
    "My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community
    ChatGPT is 3-8% of Google's search volume
    The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
    Data-Driven Analysis of Text-Conditioned AI-Generated Music: A Case Study with Suno and Udio
    The LLM Has Left The Chat: Evidence of Bail Preferences in Large Language Models
    More! Shrimp!
    Wounded robots
    Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau


Guest: Steven Levy


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