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Intelligent Machines with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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
Category: News
  • 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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