Episode 18: Rumors of Artificial General Intelligence Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, October 23 2023

Emily and Alex read through Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas' recent proclamation that "artificial general intelligence is already here." Why this claim is a maze of hype and moving goalposts.
References:
Noema Magazine: "Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here." (noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-i…)
"AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark" (datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc/pap…)
"Targeting the Benchmark: On Methodology and Current Natural Language Processing Research" (aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.85)
"Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing" (mitpress.mit.edu/9780262534536/recoding-gender….)
"The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise" (mitpress.mit.edu/9780262517966/the-computer-bo…)
"Is chess the drosophila of artificial intelligence? A social history of an algorithm" (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22530382)
"The logic of domains" (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127…)
"Reckoning and Judgment" (direct.mit.edu/books/book/4564/The-Promise-of-…)

Fresh AI Hell:
Using AI to meet "diversity goals" in modeling (twitter.com/lukewgoldstein/status/170966039950…)
AI ushering in a "post-plagiarism" era in writing (twitter.com/DrSarahEaton/status/16294825633530…)
"Wildly effective and dirt cheap AI therapy." (x.com/ilyasut/status/1707027536150929689?s=20)
Applying AI to "improve diagnosis for patients with rare diseases." (news.microsoft.com/es-es/2023/09/15/madrid-hea…)
Using LLMs in scientific research (twitter.com/mustafasuleyman/status/17085705963…)
Health insurance company Cigna using AI to deny medical claims. (c.im/@shansterable/111127300470975613)
AI for your wearable-based workout (twitter.com/emilymbender/status/17074053014677…)
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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park (naomipleasurepark.com).
Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.