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Machines Like Us

Machines Like Us is a technology show about people. We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction will become our reality: robot best friends, bespoke gene editing, brain implants that make us smarter. Every other Tuesday Taylor Owen sits down with the people shaping this rapidly approaching future. He’ll speak with entrepreneurs building world-changing technologies, lawmakers trying to ensure they’re safe, and journalists and scholars working to understand how they’re transforming our lives.

Episodes

The emergence of the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek challenges the prevailing industry dogma that massive scaling and resource-intensive computing are the only paths to advanced artificial intelligence. By utilizing efficient techniques like "mixture of experts" and leveraging forgotten research, DeepSeek achieved perform...

Big Tech Hijacked Our Attention. Chris Hayes Wants To Win It Back.

25 Feb 2025

30m

New Spyware Has Made Your Phone Less Secure Than You Might Think

11 Feb 2025

36m

A Computer Scientist Answers Your Questions About AI

28 Jan 2025

49m

Questions About AI? We Want to Hear Them

20 Jan 2025

This Mother Says a Chatbot Led to Her Son’s Death

14 Jan 2025

48m

Bonus ‘The Decibel’: How an algorithm missed a deadly listeria outbreak

31 Dec 2024

26m

AI Has Mastered Chess, Poker and Go. So Why Do We Keep Playing?

17 Dec 2024

35m

How Silicon Valley Monopolized Our Imagination

03 Dec 2024

45m

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In this podcast episode, scholar Ruha Benjamin discusses how a small group of individuals, like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, is shaping our future, and she argues that we must challenge this concentration of power over our collective imagination. She contrasts the 1969 moon landing with the Harlem Cultural Festival t...