Episode 9: Call the AI Quack Doctor, February 17, 2023

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08/08/23 • 62 min

Should the mathy-maths be telling doctors what might be wrong with you? And can they actually help train medical professionals to treat human patients? Alex and Emily discuss the not-so-real medical and healthcare applications of ChatGPT and other large language models.
Plus another round of fresh AI hell, featuring "charisma as a service," and other assorted reasons to tear your hair out.
This episode was first recorded on February 17th of 2023.
Watch the video of this episode on PeerTube.

References:
Glass.ai makes “diagnosis machine”:
https://twitter.com/AiBreakfast/status/1620128621821317125?t=Q6tTAOcGAoFJ3Ko9m4EC9g&s=19

Percy Liang claims 'PubMedGPT' can pass medical exams:
https://crfm.stanford.edu/2022/12/15/pubmedgpt.html
https://twitter.com/percyliang/status/1603469265583353856?s=20&t=SdWeINzUw92pbkTO8OAVqQ

Emily's reaction to the above:
https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1603766381807570944?s=20&t=SdWeINzUw92pbkTO8OAVqQ

ChatGPT gets 60 percent of questions right in US Medical Licensing Exam:
https://healthitanalytics.com/news/chatgpt-passes-us-medical-licensing-exam-without-clinician-input

An Apple Watch error is clogging up 911 lines:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/health/apple-watch-911-emergency-call.html

ChatGPT-assisted diagnosis: Is the future suddenly here?
https://www.statnews.com/2023/02/13/chatgpt-assisted-diagnosis/

NVIDIA “eye contact” demo:
https://twitter.com/Jousefm2/status/1616878021280993284

“Theory of the mind":
https://twitter.com/LChoshen/status/1623575423652139015?t=Ohc9tzB09pAEddAReLc6mA&s=09

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

References:
Glass.ai makes “diagnosis machine”:
https://twitter.com/AiBreakfast/status/1620128621821317125?t=Q6tTAOcGAoFJ3Ko9m4EC9g&s=19

Percy Liang claims 'PubMedGPT' can pass medical exams:
https://crfm.stanford.edu/2022/12/15/pubmedgpt.html
https://twitter.com/percyliang/status/1603469265583353856?s=20&t=SdWeINzUw92pbkTO8OAVqQ

Emily's reaction to the above:
https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1603766381807570944?s=20&t=SdWeINzUw92pbkTO8OAVqQ

ChatGPT gets 60 percent of questions right in US Medical Licensing Exam:
https://healthitanalytics.com/news/chatgpt-passes-us-medical-licensing-exam-without-clinician-input

An Apple Watch error is clogging up 911 lines:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/health/apple-watch-911-emergency-call.html

ChatGPT-assisted diagnosis: Is the future suddenly here?
https://www.statnews.com/2023/02/13/chatgpt-assisted-diagnosis/

NVIDIA “eye contact” demo:
https://twitter.com/Jousefm2/status/1616878021280993284

“Theory of the mind":
https://twitter.com/LChoshen/status/1623575423652139015?t=Ohc9tzB09pAEddAReLc6mA&s=09

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Alex

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

Previous Episode

Episode 8: The ChatGPT Awakens, January 20, 2023

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)

Piantadosi's thread showing ChatGPT writing a program to classify white males as good scientists

Find Anna Lauren Hoffman's publications (though not yet the one we were referring to) here: https://www.annaeveryday.com/publications

Sarah T. Roberts, Behind the Screen

Karen Hao's AI Colonialism series

Milagros Miceli: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/spezialseiten/persons-details/p/milagros-miceli/

Julian Posada: https://posada.website/

“This Isn’t Your Data, Friend”: Black Twitter as a Case Study on Research Ethics for Public Data (Klassen & Fiesler 2022)

No Humans Here: Ethical Speculation on Public Data, Unintended Consequences, and the Limits of Institutional Review (Pater, Fiesler & Zimmer 2022)

Casey Fiesler's publications: https://caseyfiesler.com/publications/
And TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@professorcasey

Where are human subjects in Big Data research? The emerging ethics divide. (Metcalf & Crawford 2016)

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Alex

Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
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Next Episode

Episode 10: Don't Be A Lawyer, ChatGPT. March 3, 2023

Alex and Emily are taking AI to court! Amid big claims about LLMs, a look at the facts about ChatGPT, legal expertise, and what the bar exam actually tells you about someone's ability to practice law--with help from Harvard legal and technology scholar Kendra Albert.
This episode was first recorded on March 3, 2023.
Watch the video of this episode on PeerTube.

References:
Social Science Research Network paper “written” by ChatGPT

Joe Wanzala, “ChatGPT is ideal for eDiscovery”

Legal applications for ChatGPT:
Shot: GPT-4 'could pass the. bar exam'
Chaser: ChatGPT had bigger dreams.

"AI for law"

“AI can legally run a company”

Wired: Generative AI Is Coming for the Lawyers

“This is a decision by a Colombian court in Cartagena (dated January, 30, 2023).
As far as we know, it is the first time that a judicial decision has been taken by explicitly resorting to #ChatGPT @sama @OpenAI. The Court poses a series of specific questions to #ChatGPT"

"Don't Be A Lawyer" song from "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"

Rep. Ted Lieu introduces legislation written by an LLM

DoNotPay offers money to anyone willing to use their AI to argue in court

Fresh AI Hell:
Vanderbilt University responds to MSU shooting with e-mail written using ChatGPT

Science fiction magazine closes submissions due to LLM spam

The 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT’23)

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Alex

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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 - Episode 9: Call the AI Quack Doctor, February 17, 2023

Transcript

ALEX HANNA: Welcome everyone!...to Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, where we seek catharsis in this 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 learn 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: