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Intelligent Machines
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.
Leo Laporte
He launched the network in 2005 with its first show, This Week in Tech, and continues to host that show and others on the network, including MacBreak Weekly, Security Now, Intelligent Machines, and Windows Weekly. He directs the network as a whole, hiring staff, originating new shows, and approving all advertising.
Leo posts occasionally on his blog leo.fm. He posts photos at leo.camera. He can also be found on TWiT's official Mastodon instance, TWiT.social and the TWiT Forums at TWiT.community.
He signs all email with OpenPGP and you can send him encrypted messages using his public key.
Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis is the author of the upcoming book The Gutenberg Parenthesis as well as What Would Google Do? and Public Parts. He has blogged at Buzzmachine.com about media, technology, and life's irritations since 2001. Jarvis directs the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
In prior lives, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; president and creative director of Advance.net (online arm of Advance Publications); Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner.
Paris Martineau
Paris Martineau is a senior investigative journalist on the special projects team at Consumer Reports, where she covers food safety issues and consumer harms. She has chronicled the growth of the tech industry for nearly a decade, most recently as a feature writer and investigative reporter for The Information. Previously, she was a reporter at Wired, where she broke news on tech companies big and small. Before that, she covered social media manipulation as a staff writer at The Outline and wrote about internet culture for New York Magazine.
Paris became a regular co-host of This Week in Google (now Intelligent Machines) in October 2023.
OUR HOSTS
LEO LAPORTE
He launched the network in 2005 with its first show, This Week in Tech, and continues to host that show and others on the network, including MacBreak Weekly, Security Now, Intelligent Machines, and Windows Weekly. He directs the network as a whole, hiring staff, originating new shows, and approving all advertising.
Leo posts occasionally on his blog leo.fm. He posts photos at leo.camera. He can also be found on TWiT's official Mastodon instance, TWiT.social and the TWiT Forums at TWiT.community.
He signs all email with OpenPGP and you can send him encrypted messages using his public key.
JEFF JARVIS
Jeff Jarvis is the author of the upcoming book The Gutenberg Parenthesis as well as What Would Google Do? and Public Parts. He has blogged at Buzzmachine.com about media, technology, and life's irritations since 2001. Jarvis directs the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
In prior lives, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; president and creative director of Advance.net (online arm of Advance Publications); Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner.
PARIS MARTINEAU
Paris Martineau is a senior investigative journalist on the special projects team at Consumer Reports, where she covers food safety issues and consumer harms. She has chronicled the growth of the tech industry for nearly a decade, most recently as a feature writer and investigative reporter for The Information. Previously, she was a reporter at Wired, where she broke news on tech companies big and small. Before that, she covered social media manipulation as a staff writer at The Outline and wrote about internet culture for New York Magazine.
Paris became a regular co-host of This Week in Google (now Intelligent Machines) in October 2023.