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Mar 12th 2025
Intelligent Machines 810
A Liter of Computronium
Ray Kurzweil, Amazon's Robots, Cheating AI
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Ray Kurzweil
- 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 false
claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time - A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly
- AI Tries To Cheat At Chess When It's Losing - Slashdot
- AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance
- Pokemon Go is getting a new owner after almost 9 years with Niantic
- Robots That Don’t Walk Are Making Strides
- Amazon has more than 750,000 robots that sort, lift, and carry packages—see them in action
- TikTok will play ‘calming music’ to remind teens to stop using the app
- FCC chair asks if YouTube TV ‘discriminates against faith-based programming’
- OpenAI says it has trained an AI that’s ‘really good’ at creative writing
- Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
- The Senate approves Gail Slater, President Trump's pick to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit, by a 78-19 vote; she has been critical of power in the tech industry
- Times profile of Jessica Lessin
- Gen-Zers are turning to DVDs instead of streaming their favorite movies
- Wonder Acquires Media Company Tastemade for $90 Million
- Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters
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Links
- 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 false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time
- A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly
- AI Tries To Cheat At Chess When It's Losing - Slashdot
- AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance
- Pokemon Go is getting a new owner after almost 9 years with Niantic
- Robots That Don’t Walk Are Making Strides
- Amazon has more than 750,000 robots that sort, lift, and carry packages—see them in action
- TikTok will play ‘calming music’ to remind teens to stop using the app
- FCC chair asks if YouTube TV ‘discriminates against faith-based programming’
- OpenAI says it has trained an AI that’s ‘really good’ at creative writing
- YCombinator on Karpathy "vibe coding"; product is the new coding
- The Senate approves Gail Slater, President Trump's pick to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit, by a 78-19 vote; she has been critical of power in the tech industry
- Times profile of Jessica Lessin
- Gen-Zers are turning to DVDs instead of streaming their favorite movies
- Wonder Acquires Media Company Tastemade for $90 Million
- Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters
- Annals of computer history: DTP