Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist
Because Sam Altman hates opening his laptop, OpenAI is merging with iPhone guy Jony Ive's desig
This week, Alex and Emily talk with anthropologist and immigration lawyer Petra Molnar about the deh
Emily and Alex pore through an elaborate science fiction scenario about the "inevitability"
It's been 4 months since we've cleared the backlog of Fresh AI Hell and the bullshit is co
After "AI" stopped meaning anything, the hype salesmen moved on to "AI" "ag
Measuring your talk time? Counting your filler words? What about "analyzing" your "em
Emily and Alex read a terrible book so you don't have to! Come for a quick overview of LinkedIn
In the weeks since January 20, the US information ecosystem has been unraveling fast. (We're lo
Sam Altman thinks fusion - particularly a company he's personally invested in - can provide the
In January, the United Kingdom's new Labour Party prime minister, Keir Starmer, announced a new
Not only is OpenAI's new o3 model allegedly breaking records for how close an LLM can get to th
It’s been a long year in the AI hype mines. And no matter how many claims Emily and Alex debunk, the
Once upon a time, artificial general intelligence was the only business plan OpenAI seemed to have.
From Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, billionaires with no education expertise keep using their big na
The company behind ChatGPT is back with bombastic claim that their new o1 model is capable of so-cal
Technology journalist Paris Marx joins Alex and Emily for a conversation about the environmental har
Can “AI” do your science for you? Should it be your co-author? Or, as one company asks, boldly and b
