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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Released: 2024-04-03

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29 Episodes

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29 Episodes

Audio

Released: 2024-04-03

Most Recent Episode

Episode 29: How LLMs Are Breaking the News (feat. Karen Hao), March 25 2024

Time: 1:02:30

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Award-winning AI journalist Karen Hao joins Alex and Emily to talk about why LLMs can't possibly replace the work of reporters -- and why the hype is damaging to already-struggling and necessary publications.

References:

Adweek: Google Is Paying Publishers to Test an Unreleased Gen AI Platform

The Quint: AI Invents Quote From Real Person in Article by Bihar News Site: A Wake-Up Call?

Fresh AI Hell:

Alliance for the Future

VentureBeat: Google researchers unveil ‘VLOGGER’, an AI that can bring still photos to life

Business Insider: A car dealership added an AI chatbot to its site. Then all hell broke loose.

More pranks on chatbots

You can check out future livestreams at https://twitch.tv/DAIR_Institute.

Emily

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyMBender Mastodon: https://dair-community.social/@EmilyMBender Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/emilymbender.bsky.social Alex

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@alexhanna Mastodon: https://dair-community.social/@alex Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alexhanna.bsky.social Music by Toby Menon.

Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.

Production by Christie Taylor.

Episode ID: 1000651292814

GUID: Buzzsprout-14807430

Release Date: 03/04/2024, 15:30:00

Description

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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