Episode 19: The Murky Climate and Environmental Impact of Large Language Models, November 6 2023
Drs. Emma Strubell and Sasha Luccioni join Emily and Alex for an environment-focused hour of AI hype. How much carbon does a single use of ChatGPT emit? What about the water or energy consumption of m...
8 Marras 20231h 1min
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 goalpos...
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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 acce...
4 Loka 20231h 1min
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 dermato...
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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...
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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
