Episode 23: AI Hell Freezes Over, December 22 2023
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AI Hell has frozen over for a single hour. Alex and Emily visit all seven circles in a tour of the worst in bite-sized BS. References: Pentagon moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously kill humans NYC Mayor uses AI to make robocalls in languages he doesn’t speak University of Michigan investing in OpenAI Tesla: claims of “full self-driving” are free speech LLMs may not "understand" output 'Maths-ticated' data LLMs can’t analyze an SEC filing How GPT-4 can be used to create fake datasets Paper thanking GPT-4 concludes LLMs are good for science Will AI Improve Healthcare? Consumers Think So US struggling to regulate AI in healthcare Andrew Ng's low p(doom) Presenting the “Off-Grid AGI Safety Facility” Chess is in the training data DropBox files now shared with OpenAI Underline.io and ‘commercial exploitation’ Axel Springer, OpenAI strike "real-time news" deal Adobe Stock selling AI-generated images of Israel-Hamas conflict Sports Illustrated Published Articles by AI Writers Cruise confirms robotaxis rely on human assistance every 4-5 miles Underage workers training AI, exposed to traumatic content Prisoners training AI in Finland ChatGPT gives better output in response to emotional language - An explanation for bad AI journalism UK judges now permitted to use ChatGPT in legal rulings. Michael Cohen's attorney apparently used generative AI in court petition Brazilian city enacts ordinance secretly written by ChatGPT The lawyers getting fired for using ChatGPT Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives Your palette-cleanser: Is my toddler a stochastic parrot? 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.
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