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Episode 30: Marc's Miserable Manifesto, April 1 2024
Dr. Timnit Gebru guest-hosts with Alex in a deep dive into Marc Andreessen's 2023 manifesto, which argues, loftily, in favor of maximizing the use of 'AI' in all possible spheres of life. Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director o
Episode 29: How LLMs Are Breaking the News (feat. Karen Hao), March 25 2024
Award-winning AI journalist Karen Hao (https://karendhao.com/) joins Alex and Emily to talk about why LLMs can't possibly replace the work of reporters -- and why the hype is damaging to already-struggling and necessary publications. Refere
Episode 28: LLMs Are Not Human Subjects, March 4 2024
Alex and Emily put on their social scientist hats and take on the churn of research papers suggesting that LLMs could be used to replace human labor in social science research -- or even human subjects. Why these writings are essentially ca
Episode 27: Asimov's Laws vs. 'AI' Death-Making (w/ Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders), February 19 2024
Science fiction authors and all-around tech thinkers Annalee Newitz (https://bit.ly/3Tgi1vX) and Charlie Jane Anders (https://bit.ly/3TfmVJz) join this week to talk about Isaac Asimov's oft-cited and equally often misunderstood laws of robo
Episode 26: Universities Anxiously Buy in to the Hype (feat. Chris Gilliard), February 5 2024
Just Tech Fellow Dr. Chris Gilliard (https://just-tech.ssrc.org/our-network/chris-gilliard/) aka "Hypervisible" joins Emily and Alex to talk about the wave of universities adopting AI-driven educational technologies, and the lack of protect
Episode 25: An LLM Says LLMs Can Do Your Job, January 22 2024
Is ChatGPT really going to take your job? Emily and Alex unpack two hype-tastic papers that make implausible claims about the number of workforce tasks LLMs might make cheaper, faster or easier. And why bad methodology may still trick compa
Episode 24: AI Won't Solve Structural Inequality (feat. Kerry McInerney & Eleanor Drage), January 8 2024
New year, same Bullshit Mountain. Alex and Emily are joined by feminist technosolutionism critics Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney to tear down the ways AI is proposed as a solution to structural inequality, including racism, ableism, and
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 (https://bit.ly/3RQk33P) NYC Mayor use
Episode 22: Congressional 'AI' Hearings Say More about Lawmakers (feat. Justin Hendrix), December 18 2023
Congress spent 2023 busy with hearings to investigate the capabilities, risks and potential uses of large language models and other 'artificial intelligence' systems. Alex and Emily, plus journalist Justin Hendrix, talk about the limitation
Episode 21: The True Meaning of 'Open Source' (feat. Sarah West and Andreas Liesenfeld), November 20 2023
Researchers Sarah West and Andreas Liesenfeld join Alex and Emily to examine what software companies really mean when they say their work is 'open source,' and call for greater transparency. This episode was recorded on November 20, 2023. D
Episode 20: Let's Do the Time Warp! (to the "Founding" of "Artificial Intelligence"), November 6 2023
Emily and Alex time travel back to a conference of men who gathered at Dartmouth College in the summer of 1956 to examine problems relating to computation and "thinking machines," an event commonly mythologized (https://home.dartmouth.edu/a
Episode 19: The Murky Climate and Environmental Impact of Large Language Models, November 6 2023
Drs. Emma Strubell (https://strubell.github.io/#:~:text=Emma%20Strubell%20she%2Fher,Allen%20Institute%20for%20Artificial%20Intelligence.) and Sasha Luccioni (https://www.sashaluccioni.com/) join Emily and Alex for an environment-focused hou
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: "Artific
Episode 17: Back to School with AI Hype in Education (feat. Haley Lepp), September 22 2023
Emily and Alex are joined by Stanford PhD student Haley Lepp to examine the increasing hype around LLMs in education spaces - whether they're pitched as ways to reduce teacher workloads, increase accessibility, or simply "democratize learni
Episode 16: Med-PaLM or Facepalm? A Second Opinion On LLMs In Healthcare (feat. Roxana Daneshjou), August 28, 2023
Alex and Emily are taking another stab at Google and other companies' aspirations to be part of the healthcare system - this time with the expertise of Stanford incoming assistant professor of dermatology and biomedical data science Roxana
Episode 15: The White House And Big Tech Dance The Self-Regulation Tango, August 11 2023
Emily and Alex tackle the White House hype about the 'voluntary commitments' of companies to limit the harms of their large language models: but only some large language models, and only some, over-hyped kinds of harms. Plus a full portion
Episode 14: Henry Kissinger, Machines of War, and the Age of Military AI Hype (feat. Lucy Suchman), July 21 2023
Emily and Alex are joined by technology scholar Dr. Lucy Suchman to scrutinize a new book from Henry Kissinger and coauthors Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher that declares a new 'Age of AI,' with abundant hype about the capacity of larg
Episode 13: Beware The Robo-Therapist (feat. Hannah Zeavin), June 8 2023
Emily and Alex talk to UC Berkeley scholar Hannah Zeavin about the case of the National Eating Disorders Association helpline, which tried to replace human volunteers with a chatbot (https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ezkm/eating-disorder-he
Episode 12: It's All Hell, May 5 2023
Take a deep breath and join Alex and Emily in AI Hell itself, as they take down a month's worth of hype in a mere 60 minutes. This episode aired on Friday, May 5, 2023. Watch the video of this episode on PeerTube (https://peertube.dair-inst
Episode 11: A GPT-4 Fanfiction Novella, April 7 2023
After a hype-y few weeks of AI happenings, Alex and Emily shovel the BS on GPT-4’s “system card,” its alleged “sparks of Artificial General Intelligence,” and a criti-hype heavy "AI pause" letter. Hint: for a good time, check the citations.
Episode 10: Don't Be A Lawyer, ChatGPT. March 3, 2023
Alex and Emily are taking AI to court! Amid big claims about LLMs, a look at the facts about ChatGPT, legal expertise, and what the bar exam actually tells you about someone's ability to practice law--with help from Harvard legal and techno
Episode 9: Call the AI Quack Doctor, February 17, 2023
Should the mathy-maths be telling doctors what might be wrong with you? And can they actually help train medical professionals to treat human patients? Alex and Emily discuss the not-so-real medical and healthcare applications of ChatGPT an
Episode 8: The ChatGPT Awakens, January 20, 2023
New year, new hype? As the world gets swept up in the fervor over ChatGPT of late 2022, Emily and Alex give a deep sigh and begin to unpack the wave of fresh enthusiasm over large language models and the "chat" format specifically. Plus, mo
Episode 7: There Are Now 15 Competing Evaluation Metrics (ft. Dr. Jeremy Kahn). December 12, 2022
Emily and Alex are joined by Dr. Jeremy G. Kahn to discuss the distressingly large number of evaluation metrics for artificial intelligence, and some new AI hell. Jeremy G. Kahn has a PhD in computational linguistics, with a focus on inform
Episode 6: Stochastic Parrot Galactica, November 23, 2022
Emily and Alex discuss MetaAI's bullshit science paper generator, Galactica, along with its defenders. Plus, where could AI actually help scientific research? And more Fresh AI Hell. Watch the video of this episode on PeerTube (https://peer
Episode 5: Sam Bankman-Fried's Future Fund, November 9 2022
Emily and Alex discuss Sam Bankman-Fried's Future Fund, its essay contest, and the problems with using AI for prediction and resource allocation--mere days before the collapse of FTX. Also, we introduce our "What in the Fresh AI Hell?" segm
Episode 4: Is AI Art Actually 'Art'? October 26, 2022
AI is increasingly being used to make visual art. But when is an algorithmically-generated image art...and when is it just an aesthetically pleasing arrangement of pixels? Technology researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna talk to a pane
Episode 3: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 3, September 23, 2022
Technology researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna kick off the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series by reading through, "Can machines learn how to behave (https://medium.com/@blaisea/can-machines-learn-how-to-behave-42a02a57fadb)?" by Bl
Episode 2: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 2, September 6, 2022
Technology researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna kick off the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series by reading through, "Can machines learn how to behave (https://medium.com/@blaisea/can-machines-learn-how-to-behave-42a02a57fadb)?" by Bl
Episode 1: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 1, August 31, 2022
Technology researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna kick off the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series by reading through, "Can machines learn how to behave (https://medium.com/@blaisea/can-machines-learn-how-to-behave-42a02a57fadb)?" by Bl
