Episode 23: AI Hell Freezes Over, December 22 2023

AI Hell has frozen over for a single hour. Alex and Emily visit all seven circles in a tour of the worst in bite-sized BS.
References:
Pentagon moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously kill humans (bit.ly/3RQk33P)
NYC Mayor uses AI to make robocalls in languages he doesn’t speak (bit.ly/3HijsD2)
University of Michigan investing in OpenAI (bit.ly/3NVkM2F)
Tesla: claims of “full self-driving” are free speech (bit.ly/3S8biU9)
LLMs may not "understand" output (bit.ly/3S9bAtU)
'Maths-ticated' data (bit.ly/3TZIlLH)
LLMs can’t analyze an SEC filing (bit.ly/3ScIDgH)
How GPT-4 can be used to create fake datasets (go.nature.com/3SfTaYM)
Paper thanking GPT-4 concludes LLMs are good for science (bit.ly/3TTySWb)
Will AI Improve Healthcare? Consumers Think So (bit.ly/3NW12M9)
US struggling to regulate AI in healthcare (bit.ly/4aJUASt)
Andrew Ng's low p(doom) (bit.ly/3NTipgI)
Presenting the “Off-Grid AGI Safety Facility” (bit.ly/3NT4xDh)
Chess is in the training data (bit.ly/3vn7iGo)
DropBox files now shared with OpenAI (cnb.cx/3vqrLKp)
Underline.io and ‘commercial exploitation’ (bit.ly/48QOCNX)
Axel Springer, OpenAI strike "real-time news" deal (bit.ly/48KfMpB)
Adobe Stock selling AI-generated images of Israel-Hamas conflict (bit.ly/3SdC7GK)
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by AI Writers (bit.ly/48Hc7JH)
Cruise confirms robotaxis rely on human assistance every 4-5 miles (bit.ly/3Hxivat)
Underage workers training AI, exposed to traumatic content (bit.ly/3tLqDka)
Prisoners training AI in Finland (bit.ly/3HdImUE)
ChatGPT gives better output in response to emotional language (bit.ly/3HezOwQ)
- An explanation for bad AI journalism (bit.ly/3NYKX8x)
UK judges now permitted to use ChatGPT in legal rulings. (bit.ly/3HeYhSG)
Michael Cohen's attorney apparently used generative AI in court petition (bit.ly/3NW1ha1)
Brazilian city enacts ordinance secretly written by ChatGPT (bit.ly/3tM6OJz)
The lawyers getting fired for using ChatGPT (wapo.st/3NWuHVy)
Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives (bit.ly/3NWuKRe)
Your palette-cleanser: Is my toddler a stochastic parrot? (bit.ly/3tITB4j)
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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park (naomipleasurepark.com).
Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.