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Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
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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4.6 stars from 32 ratings
Good topic, poor delivery
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“The interaction between language and LLMs is one of the most interesting topics today. However, poor spoken language, poluted with constant name droppings, a lot of “um”, “like” and forced laughter interjections, renders it unlistenable for me.”
M3PH15TO. via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
10/10/24
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“This podcast helps people including this skeptical Computer Scientist (CS) student and professional. More importantly it is accessible to all by educating about facts rather than marketing jargon. It is informative and recent episodes have improved greatly. Cutting through AI-hype trends is...”Read full review »
Infini19A0 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/04/24
“If you are still afraid of the stochastic parrots, listen.
If you already know, and are exasperated by otherwise sensible people convinced they’re on the verge of being replaced in all areas of life with some grinning robot, have them listen.
This is both vaccine and antidote.”
pengcognito via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/27/23
Recent Episodes
The company behind ChatGPT is back with bombastic claim that their new o1 model is capable of so-called "complex reasoning." Ever-faithful, Alex and Emily tear it apart. Plus the flaws in a tech publication's new 'AI hype index,' and some palette-cleansing new regulation against data-scraping...
Published 11/13/24
Published 11/13/24
Technology journalist Paris Marx joins Alex and Emily for a conversation about the environmental harms of the giant data centers and other water- and energy-hungry infrastructure at the heart of LLMs and other generative tools like ChatGPT -- and why the hand-wavy assurances of CEOs that 'AI will...
Published 10/31/24
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