Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

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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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Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Episodes

Episode 8: The ChatGPT Awakens, January 20, 2023 04.08.2023 1:04:13

New year, new hype? As the world gets swept up in the fervor over ChatGPT of late 2022, Emily and Alex give a deep sigh and begin to unpack the wave of fresh enthusiasm over large language models and the "chat" format specifically. Plus, more fresh AI hell. This episode was recorded on January 20, 2023. Watch the video of this episode on PeerTube . References: Situating Search (Shah &amp...

Episode 7: There Are Now 15 Competing Evaluation Metrics (ft. Dr. Jeremy Kahn). December 12, 2022 26.07.2023 1:03:14

Emily and Alex are joined by Dr. Jeremy G. Kahn to discuss the distressingly large number of evaluation metrics for artificial intelligence, and some new AI hell. Jeremy G. Kahn has a PhD in computational linguistics, with a focus on information-theoretic and empirical engineering approaches to dealing with natural language (in text and speech). He’s gregarious, polyglot, a semi-auto-didact, and o...

Episode 6: Stochastic Parrot Galactica, November 23, 2022 17.07.2023 1:03:12

Emily and Alex discuss MetaAI's bullshit science paper generator, Galactica, along with its defenders. Plus, where could AI actually help scientific research? And more Fresh AI Hell. Watch the video of this episode on PeerTube . References: Imre Lakatos on research programs Shah, Chirag and Emily M. Bender. 2022. Situating Search. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Informat...

Episode 5: Sam Bankman-Fried's Future Fund, November 9 2022 11.07.2023 59:08

Emily and Alex discuss Sam Bankman-Fried's Future Fund, its essay contest, and the problems with using AI for prediction and resource allocation--mere days before the collapse of FTX. Also, we introduce our "What in the Fresh AI Hell?" segment! This episode was recorded on November 9, 2022. Watch the video of this episode on PeerTube. References: Super Forecasting And AI Bill Howe...

Episode 4: Is AI Art Actually 'Art'? October 26, 2022 02.07.2023 1:03:38

AI is increasingly being used to make visual art. But when is an algorithmically-generated image art...and when is it just an aesthetically pleasing arrangement of pixels? Technology researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna talk to a panel of artists and researchers about the hype, the ethics, and even the definitions of art when a computer is involved. This episode was recorded in October of 20...

Episode 3: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 3, September 23, 2022 19.06.2023 1:03:00

Technology researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna kick off the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series by reading through, " Can machines learn how to behave ?" by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, a Google VP who works on artificial intelligence. This episode was recorded in September of 2022, and is the last of three about Aguera y Arcas' post. You can watch the video of this episode on Peer...

Episode 2: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 2, September 6, 2022 19.06.2023 1:01:30

Technology researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna kick off the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series by reading through, " Can machines learn how to behave ?" by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, a Google VP who works on artificial intelligence. This episode was recorded in September of 2022, and is the second of three about Aguera y Arcas' post. You can also watch the video of this episode...

Episode 1: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 1, August 31, 2022 31.05.2023 44:58

Technology researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna kick off the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series by reading through, " Can machines learn how to behave ?" by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, a Google VP who works on artificial intelligence. This episode was recorded in August of 2022, and is the first of three about Aguera y Arcas' post. Watch the video stream on PeerTube . Check out fu...