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-hy...
20 Syys 20231h 4min
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 ...
13 Syys 20231h 1min
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--and why the dataf...
7 Syys 20231h
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 episod...
29 Elo 20231h 1min
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. Hin...
24 Elo 20231h 3min
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-...
16 Elo 20231h 6min
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 a...
8 Elo 20231h 2min
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 ...
4 Elo 20231h 4min
