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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000


Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

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Length:
30 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 30 episodes

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

Dr. Timnit Gebru guest-hosts with Alex in a deep dive into Marc Andreessen's 2023 manif...

60 minutes
Apr 19, 2024

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

Award-winning AI journalist Karen Hao joins Alex and Emily to talk about why LLMs can't...

62 minutes
Apr 03, 2024

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

Alex and Emily put on their social scientist hats and take on the churn of research pap...

60 minutes
Mar 13, 2024

Episode 27: Asimov's Laws vs. 'AI' Death-Making (w/ Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders), February 19 2024

Science fiction authors and all-around tech thinkers Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane An...

64 minutes
Feb 29, 2024

Episode 26: Universities Anxiously Buy in to the Hype (feat. Chris Gilliard), February 5 2024

Just Tech Fellow Dr. Chris Gilliard aka "Hypervisible" joins Emily and Alex to talk abo...

59 minutes
Feb 15, 2024

Episode 25: An LLM Says LLMs Can Do Your Job, January 22 2024

Is ChatGPT really going to take your job? Emily and Alex unpack two hype-tastic papers ...

56 minutes
Feb 01, 2024

Episode 24: AI Won't Solve Structural Inequality (feat. Kerry McInerney & Eleanor Drage), January 8 2024

New year, same Bullshit Mountain. Alex and Emily are joined by feminist technosolutioni...

60 minutes
Jan 17, 2024

Episode 23: AI Hell Freezes Over, December 22 2023

AI Hell has frozen over for a single hour. Alex and Emily visit all seven circles in a ...

64 minutes
Jan 10, 2024

Episode 22: Congressional 'AI' Hearings Say More about Lawmakers (feat. Justin Hendrix), December 18 2023

Congress spent 2023 busy with hearings to investigate the capabilities, risks and poten...

57 minutes
Jan 03, 2024

Episode 21: The True Meaning of 'Open Source' (feat. Sarah West and Andreas Liesenfeld), November 20 2023

Researchers Sarah West and Andreas Liesenfeld join Alex and Emily to examine what softw...

64 minutes
Nov 30, 2023