This Week in Google (Video)

About This Week in Google (Video)

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

95 of 143 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate

   Lon Seidman shares practical tips for running powerful AI locally, while Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ discuss the accelerating AI debate and its implications.

2. 

   10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   IM 887: September 39th - Siri's Next Move: Inside Apple's Ambitious AI Overhaul

   Hosts Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent interview Matthew Cassinelli about Apple's AI overhaul and Siri's future impact.

3. 

   3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   IM 886: Infinite Slop - The End of Apps? Meet the Agentic OS Built for Your Phone

   Jeff Jarvis interviews Div Garg about his vision for an agentic OS that runs powerful, specialized AI directly on your phone, potentially transforming productivity and privacy.

Inside a recent episode

IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate

Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You know, proofreading, summarizing a document. Summarization, it's really good at. If you keep it focused on a very specific set of data, it does very well. I have found, though, that Gemma 31B is slightly more accurate than Quen is. So even though Gemma's the older model, for what I'm using it for, less code, more analysis, Gemma's been a little better. We have sacrificed smarts for smarts. So basically, by taking a model and dumbing it down and only trading it on information that we're going to be using, it is less capable. But what we ask it to do, it does much, much better. And it hallucinates much less. […]

Who has been a guest on This Week in Google (Video)

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• 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)

4.4 / 5

108 ratings

Spotify

4.4 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 96 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

96

Social presence

94

YouTube

93

Engagement

99

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