The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart phones and robots.
The Intelligent Machines podcast explores the most exciting revolution humanity has ever seen, filled with promise and peril. More than ever we need to understand what these new devices will bring to our lives and how to make best use of them as the 21st century unfolds.
On this show you'll meet the AI pioneers, inventors, and innovators who are about to disrupt every aspect of modern life. You'll learn what's real and what's hype, and you'll come away with a deep understanding of the intelligent future that awaits us all.
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IM 890: 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs
What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, e
Oct 1 2 h 52 min
IM 889: We Are the Neanderthals - Why LLMs Fail at Complex Reasoning
Forget large language models. This episode uncovers a radically different approach to AI, where physics-guided reasoning and energy-based models are reshaping what machin
Sep 24 2 h 37 min
IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate
Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into powerful local LLM machines.
Sep 17 2 h 41 min
IM 887: September 39th - Siri's Next Move: Inside Apple's Ambitious AI Overhaul
As Apple finally pulls back the curtain on its next-gen Siri AI, we break down what actually works, where it falls short, and how a wave of developer confusion could shap
Sep 10 2 h 21 min
IM 886: Infinite Slop - The End of Apps? Meet the Agentic OS Built for Your Phone
Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach
Sep 3 2 h 43 min
IM 885: Get on the Butter Box - Can Local AI Models Outperform Frontier Labs?
With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in busine
Aug 27 2 h 22 min
IM 884: Cyber Jim - Why Critical Infrastructure Depends on Obsessive Code Reviews
Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, industry giants, and Silicon Va
Aug 20 2 h 35 min
IM 883: Gates-Gate - AI Model Watermarks
Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journa
Aug 13 2 h 35 min
IM 882: AI Rubberz? - From Fart Apps to AI Agents The Journey of a Tech Rulemaker
Meet the insider who wrote the App Store's rules and now battles AI's wildest frontier: protecting identities from deepfake abuse and digital piracy. Discover why the fig
Aug 4 2 h 29 min
IM 881: Curtains for Zoosha? - Why Newsrooms Must Rethink Journalism in the AI Age
Business Insider founder Henry Blodget unpacks why the era of news aggregation is finished and why journalists must adapt fast as AI redefines both reporting and analysis
Jul 30 2 h 08 min
IM 880: The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?
An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly u
Jul 23 2 h 38 min
IM 879: Alex Karp, Alex Karp, Alex Karp - Beyond Fable: Are Open Models Ready for Prime Time?
With open weight models fast approaching the power and utility of closed AI giants, enterprises face tough choices about privacy, sovereignty, and who they can trust. Exp
Jul 16 2 h 24 min
IM 878: The 1AM Bus to Chinatown - Robots, Bison, and the Art of Savoring Small Stuff
Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simpl
Jul 9 3 h 05 min
IM 877: Model Now Available - The Race for Smarter, Freer AI Models
Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the
Jul 2 2 h 47 min
IM 876: It's No Melania - Section 230 on Trial
Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liab
Jun 25 2 h 44 min
IM 875: Florida Dad - Amazon, Anthropic, and the AI Power Struggle
The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected politi
Jun 18 2 h 15 min
IM 874: Google Knows I Love the Pepper Cannon - AI and the New Social Contract
Discover how a homegrown AI agent is outsmarting big-brand competitors, letting users tailor digital assistants with real memory and skills. The future isn't just smarter
Jun 11 2 h 46 min
IM 873: Superman's Mustache - AI in Hollywood
AI is upending the movie business, from Amazon's new AI Creators Fund to contract battles that just gave synthetic actors the green light in Hollywood. This episode dives
Jun 4 2 h 31 min
IM 872: Infinite Jeffs - Why the Pope's AI Manifesto Matters
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and
May 28 2 h 32 min
IM 871: CTRL-F Techno King - Google's Search Overhaul
Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code r
May 21 2 h 53 min
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Struggling with how to rate this. Long time listener since the TWiG days, having listened to 100s of episodes.
The three hosts usually have great chemistry. Leo has a sense of tech history, Jeff has industrial historical perspective and Paris grounds them both with real-world usage and commentary her older co-hosts often are blind to.
The challenge to that chemistry is when Leo puts on a pedantic AI acceleration hat on and dismissively talks over his co-hosts. Thankfully Paris and Jeff are often able to eventually reign Leo back in, often with a wildly interesting but off-topic story. Hello, radioactive shrimp anyone? Or torte law museum? lol. Fabulous!
The guests are very interesting and I appreciate the journalistic chops that 2/3 of the crew has. Great questions instead of cheer-leading and ego-rubbing.
Ultimately I still recommend the pod (netcast!) primarily as their perspective and tones differs on topics of the week compared to several other similarly themed pods (ex. Hard Fork).
McJahgernaut · Jul 2026
I look forward to the show every week. Informative interviews and an excellent (if sometimes chaotic) round up of the week’s news. My favorite part is the banter between the hosts because it really feels like you’re listening to your friends going back and forth.
Bnorwood77 · Aug 2025
I’ve been riding the Leo Laporte train since the TechTV days—back when floppy disks still roamed the Earth. Intelligent Machines is vintage Leo with a futuristic twist: warm, witty, and wildly curious. Add Paris Martineau’s razor-sharp insights and Jeff Jarvis’s signature “grumpy professor meets AI evangelist” energy, and you’ve got a podcast that feels like a front-row seat at a brainiac dinner party.
It’s the only show where I can laugh, learn, and panic about AI taking over… all in under an hour. If HAL 9000 had listened to this podcast, maybe things would’ve turned out better.
Five stars, easy. More, if the robots let me.
BruceAllan · Jul 2025
Mr. Leo Laporte. Let me just say it is an honor sir, I downloaded Apple Podcasts just to leave this review. I’ll start by saying I am a 45 year old African-American man that works at one of the top cancer centers in Texas. I have followed your career from doing tech support in Houston, the Screensavers, this Week in Tech/Google and now my personal favorite show, “Intelligent Machines”. It’s the perfect combination of the sage wisdom of Jeff Jarvis, fan of the printed word such as myself, the “cold water in the face” of reality provided by the young upstart, Paris Martineu and the steady anchor, the familiar voice from my youth, Uncle Leo Laporte. Huge fan of the show, subscriber and fellow AI accelerator. One more thing, tell Mikah Sargent that there’s Black tech OG’s like me out here watching him and we’re proud of him. Keep it up. - Cybersoulja
cybersoulja4123 · Nov 2025
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