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 & Bender 2022)  Related op-ed:...

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 occasionally prolix. He also likes comic books, coffee, progressive politics, information theory,...

Emily and Alex discuss MetaAI's b******t science paper generator, Galactica, along with its defenders. Plus, where could AI actually help scientific research? And more Fresh AI Hell.  References: Imre Lakatos on research programs Shah, Chirag and Emily M. Bender. 2022. Situating Search. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ’22). UW RAISE (Responsibility in AI Systems and Experiences) Stochastic Parrots: Bender, Emily M.,...

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 - Applied AI in High-Expertise Settings or Curation as Programming Samir Passi and Solon Barocos - "Problem...

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 2022. Dr. Johnathan Flowers is an assistant professor in the department of philosophy at...

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 check out future livestreams at https://twitch.tv/DAIR_Institute. Follow us! Emily https://twitter.com/EmilyMBender...

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 check out future livestreams at https://twitch.tv/DAIR_Institute. Follow us! Emily https://twitter.com/EmilyMBender...

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. You can check out future livestreams at https://twitch.tv/DAIR_Institute. Follow us! Emily https://twitter.com/EmilyMBender...