After a hype-y few weeks of AI happenings, Alex and Emily shovel the BS on GPT-4’s “system card,” its alleged “sparks of Artificial General Intelligence,” and a criti-hype heavy "AI pause" letter. Hint: for a good time, check the citations. This episode originally aired on Friday, April 7, 2023. You can also watch the video of this episode on PeerTube. References: GPT-4 system card: https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf “Sparks of AGI” hype: https://twitter.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1638704164770332674 And the preprint from Bubeck et al.: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 “Pause AI” letter: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/ The “Sparks” paper points to this 1997 editorial in their definition of “intelligence”: https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997mainstream.pdf Radiolab's miniseries, 'G': https://radiolab.org/series/radiolab-presents-g Baria and Cross, "The brain is a computer is a brain.": https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14042 Senator Chris Murphy buys the hype: https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1640186536825061376 Generative “AI” is making “police sketches”: https://twitter.com/Wolven/status/1624299508371804161?t=DXyucCPYPAKNn8TtAo0xeg&s=19 More mathy math in policing: https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/aurora-police-new-ai-system-bodycam-footage/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter User Research without the Users: https://twitter.com/schock/status/1643392611560878086 DoNotPay is here to cancel your gym membership: https://twitter.com/BrianBrackeen/status/1644193519496511488?s=20 You can check out future livestreams at https://twitch.tv/DAIR_Institute. Follow us! 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.