Episode 12: It's All Hell, May 5 2023

08/29/23 • 61 min

Take a deep breath and join Alex and Emily in AI Hell itself, as they take down a month's worth of hype in a mere 60 minutes.

This episode aired on Friday, May 5, 2023.
Watch the video of this episode on PeerTube.

References:

Terrifying NEJM article on GPT-4 in medicine

“Healthcare professionals preferred ChatGPT 79% of the time”

Good thoughts from various experts in response

ChatGPT supposedly reading dental x-rays

Chatbots “need” therapists

CEO proposes AI therapist, removes proposal upon realizing there’s regulation:
https://twitter.com/BEASTMODE/status/1650013819693944833 (deleted)

ChatGPT is more carbon efficient than human writers

Asking disinformation machine for confirmation bias

GPT-4 glasses to tell you what to say on dates, "Charisma as a Service"

Context-aware fill for missing data

“Overemployed” with help from ChatGPT

Pakistani court uses GPT-4 in bail decision
ChatGPT in Peruvian and Mexican courts

Elon Musk’s deepfake defense

Elon Musk's TruthGPT

Fake interview in German publication revealed as “AI” at the end of the article

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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Production by Christie Taylor.

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08/29/23 • 61 min

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 - Episode 12: It's All Hell, May 5 2023

Transcript

ALEX HANNA: Hello hello there. Welcome everybody to Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 where we seek catharsis in the age of AI hype we find the worst of it and pop it with the sharpest needles we can find.

EMILY M. BENDER: Along the way we've learned to always read the footnotes and each time we think we've reached peak AI hype, the summit of Bullshit Mountain we discover there's worse to come. I'm Emily M Bender a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington.

ALEX HANNA:

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