This Week in Google (Audio)
Hosted by Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau and Mike Elgan · TWiT
4.2from 860 ratings
- 143
- Episodes
- 140
- Transcribed
- 860
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 82M
- YouTube views
About This Week in Google (Audio)
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.You can join Club TWiT (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast (https://twit.memberful.com/checkout?plan=134285) ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes every Wednesday.
- Publisher
- TWiT
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Dec 2023
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
140 of 143 episodes have a transcript.
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
IM 887: September 39th - Siri's Next Move: Inside Apple's Ambitious AI Overhaul
3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
IM 886: Infinite Slop - The End of Apps? Meet the Agentic OS Built for Your Phone
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IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Logistics, controlling the flow of resources across the country, everything from food to power to water, that's gonna be controlled by AI because anytime you can do just-in-time delivery of resources, you always increase your profit margin. So in just those two systems alone, If you have AIs that start to misbehave as we have seen them misbehave and start to hallucinate and start to go beyond scope, which they have proven they can do, that destroys a country. You flash crash our economy, it may not come back. You flash crash our electrical grid and our logistic support, it can take months to bring it back. […]
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- Lon Seidman
- Matthew Cassinelli
- Mikah Sargent
- Div Garg
- Dan O'Dowd
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 81,750,878
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 805 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 55 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 96 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts This Week in Google (Audio)?
Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau and Mike Elgan host the show. Published by TWiT.
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