IM 881: Curtains for Zoosha?

New episode of Intelligent Machines: “Curtains for Zoosha?” is now available.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau · Guest: Henry Blodget

Topics covered:

  • :newspaper: Henry Blodget on the death of news aggregation and journalism’s AI future
  • :robot: Sam Altman’s singularity declaration and the OpenAI hacking aftermath
  • :globe_with_meridians: Geopolitical AI tensions: Chinese robot bans and claims of stolen models
  • :dna: Major AI shifts including Google shutting down AlphaFold and OpenAI launching ChatGPT Health

#IntelligentMachines #AI #TWiT

When discussing McLuhan’s quote about “the medium is the message,” that quote comes from his 1964 book, but it is not the name of the book. A later book was supposed to be that exact quote, but (possibly apocryphal) there was a text error that made the name “The Medium Is The Massage,” and McLuhan liked it so much that he kept it as the book title (and it is a solid explanation of his theory). Great interview with Henry Blodgett, Paris covered the subjects I was most interested in hearing.