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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist

Episodes

Total: 61

Researchers Sarah West and Andreas Liesenfeld join Alex and Emily to examine what software companies

Emily and Alex time travel back to a conference of men who gathered at Dartmouth College in the summ

Drs. Emma Strubell and Sasha Luccioni join Emily and Alex for an environment-focused hour of AI hype

Emily and Alex read through Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas' recent proclamation th

Emily and Alex are joined by Stanford PhD student Haley Lepp to examine the increasing hype around L

Alex and Emily are taking another stab at Google and other companies' aspirations to be part of

Emily and Alex tackle the White House hype about the 'voluntary commitments' of companies

Emily and Alex are joined by technology scholar Dr. Lucy Suchman to scrutinize a new book from Henry

Emily and Alex talk to UC Berkeley scholar Hannah Zeavin about the case of the National Eating Disor

Take a deep breath and join Alex and Emily in AI Hell itself, as they take down a month's worth

After a hype-y few weeks of AI happenings, Alex and Emily shovel the BS on GPT-4’s “system card,” it

Alex and Emily are taking AI to court! Amid big claims about LLMs, a look at the facts about ChatGPT

Should the mathy-maths be telling doctors what might be wrong with you? And can they actually help t

New year, new hype? As the world gets swept up in the fervor over ChatGPT of late 2022, Emily and Al

Emily and Alex are joined by Dr. Jeremy G. Kahn to discuss the distressingly large number of evaluat

Emily and Alex discuss MetaAI's bullshit science paper generator, Galactica, along with its def

Emily and Alex discuss Sam Bankman-Fried's Future Fund, its essay contest, and the problems wit

AI is increasingly being used to make visual art. But when is an algorithmically-generated image art

Technology researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna kick off the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 seri

Technology researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna kick off the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 seri