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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They"re joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.

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Episode 36: About That 'Dangerous Capabilities'...

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2024/07/19

When is a research paper not a research paper? When a big tech company uses a preprint server as a means to dodge peer review -- in this case, of their wild speculations on the 'dangerous capabilities' of large language models. Ali Alkhatib joins Emily to explain why a recent Google DeepMind document about the hunt for evidence that LLMs might intentionally deceive us was bad science, and yet is still influencing the public conversation about AI.Ali Alkhatib is a computer scientist and former...

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Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire...

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2024/07/03

You've already heard about the rock-prescribing, glue pizza-suggesting hazards of Google's AI overviews. But the problems with the internet's most-used search engine go way back. UCLA scholar and "Algorithms of Oppression" author Safiya Noble joins Alex and Emily in a conversation about how Google has long been breaking our information ecosystem in the name of shareholders and ad sales.References:Blog post, May 14: Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for youBlog post, May 30:...

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Episode 34: Senate Dot Roadmap Dot Final Dot No...

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2024/06/20

The politicians are at it again: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's series of industry-centric forums last year have birthed a "roadmap" for future legislation. Emily and Alex take a deep dive on this report, and conclude that the time spent writing it could have instead been spent...making useful laws.References:Driving US Innovation in Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Policy in the United StatesTech Policy Press: US Senate AI Insight Forum TrackerPut the Pu...

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Episode 33: Much Ado About 'AI' 'Deception', May 20 2024

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2024/06/05

Will the LLMs somehow become so advanced that they learn to lie to us in order to achieve their own ends? It's the stuff of science fiction, and in science fiction these claims should remain. Emily and guest host Margaret Mitchell, machine learning researcher and chief ethics scientist at HuggingFace, break down why 'AI deception' is firmly a feature of human hype.Reference:Patterns: "AI deception: A survey of examples, risks, and potential solutions"Fresh AI Hell:Adobe's 'ethical' image gene...

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Episode 32: A Flood of AI Hell, April 29 2024

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2024/05/23

AI Hell froze over this winter and now a flood of meltwater threatens to drown Alex and Emily. Armed with raincoats and a hastily-written sea shanty*, they tour the realms, from spills of synthetic information, to the special corner reserved for ShotSpotter.**Lyrics & video on Peertube.*Surveillance:*Public kiosks slurp phone dataWorkplace surveillanceSurveillance by bathroom mirrorStalking-as-a-serviceCops tap everyone else's videosFacial recognition at the doctor's office*Synthetic info...

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Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly...

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2024/05/07

Will AI someday do all our scientific research for us? Not likely. Drs. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri join for a takedown of the hype of "self-driving labs" and why such misrepresentations also harm the humans who are vital to scientific research.Dr. Molly Crockett is an associate professor of psychology at Princeton University.Dr. Lisa Messeri is an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, and author of the new book, In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in ...

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Episode 30: Marc's Miserable Manifesto, April 1 2024

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2024/04/19

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Episode 29: How LLMs Are Breaking the News (feat....

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2024/04/03

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Episode 28: LLMs Are Not Human Subjects, March 4 2024

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2024/03/13

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Episode 27: Asimov's Laws vs. 'AI' Death-Making (w/...

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2024/02/29

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Episode 26: Universities Anxiously Buy in to the Hype...

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2024/02/15

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Episode 25: An LLM Says LLMs Can Do Your Job, January...

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2024/02/01

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Episode 24: AI Won't Solve Structural Inequality...

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2024/01/17

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Episode 23: AI Hell Freezes Over, December 22 2023

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2024/01/10

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Episode 22: Congressional 'AI' Hearings Say More...

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2024/01/03

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Episode 21: The True Meaning of 'Open Source' (feat....

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2023/11/30

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Episode 20: Let's Do the Time Warp! (to the...

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2023/11/21

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Episode 19: The Murky Climate and Environmental...

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2023/11/08

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Episode 18: Rumors of Artificial General Intelligence...

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2023/10/31

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Episode 17: Back to School with AI Hype in Education...

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2023/10/04

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