Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

By Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

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Episodes: 31

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Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.

Episode Date
Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri), April 15 2024
May 07, 2024
Episode 30: Marc's Miserable Manifesto, April 1 2024
Apr 19, 2024
Episode 29: How LLMs Are Breaking the News (feat. Karen Hao), March 25 2024
Apr 03, 2024
Episode 28: LLMs Are Not Human Subjects, March 4 2024
Mar 13, 2024
Episode 27: Asimov's Laws vs. 'AI' Death-Making (w/ Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders), February 19 2024
Feb 29, 2024
Episode 26: Universities Anxiously Buy in to the Hype (feat. Chris Gilliard), February 5 2024
Feb 15, 2024
Episode 25: An LLM Says LLMs Can Do Your Job, January 22 2024
Feb 01, 2024
Episode 24: AI Won't Solve Structural Inequality (feat. Kerry McInerney & Eleanor Drage), January 8 2024
Jan 17, 2024
Episode 23: AI Hell Freezes Over, December 22 2023
Jan 10, 2024
Episode 22: Congressional 'AI' Hearings Say More about Lawmakers (feat. Justin Hendrix), December 18 2023
Jan 03, 2024
Episode 21: The True Meaning of 'Open Source' (feat. Sarah West and Andreas Liesenfeld), November 20 2023
Nov 30, 2023
Episode 20: Let's Do the Time Warp! (to the "Founding" of "Artificial Intelligence"), November 6 2023
Nov 21, 2023
Episode 19: The Murky Climate and Environmental Impact of Large Language Models, November 6 2023
Nov 08, 2023
Episode 18: Rumors of Artificial General Intelligence Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, October 23 2023
Oct 31, 2023
Episode 17: Back to School with AI Hype in Education (feat. Haley Lepp), September 22 2023
Oct 04, 2023
Episode 16: Med-PaLM or Facepalm? A Second Opinion On LLMs In Healthcare (feat. Roxana Daneshjou), August 28, 2023
Sep 28, 2023
Episode 15: The White House And Big Tech Dance The Self-Regulation Tango, August 11 2023
Sep 20, 2023
Episode 14: Henry Kissinger, Machines of War, and the Age of Military AI Hype (feat. Lucy Suchman), July 21 2023
Sep 13, 2023
Episode 13: Beware The Robo-Therapist (feat. Hannah Zeavin), June 8 2023
Sep 07, 2023
Episode 12: It's All Hell, May 5 2023
Aug 29, 2023
Episode 11: A GPT-4 Fanfiction Novella, April 7 2023
Aug 24, 2023
Episode 10: Don't Be A Lawyer, ChatGPT. March 3, 2023
Aug 16, 2023
Episode 9: Call the AI Quack Doctor, February 17, 2023
Aug 08, 2023
Episode 8: The ChatGPT Awakens, January 20, 2023
Aug 04, 2023
Episode 7: There Are Now 15 Competing Evaluation Metrics (ft. Dr. Jeremy Kahn). December 12, 2022
Jul 26, 2023
Episode 6: Stochastic Parrot Galactica, November 23, 2022
Jul 17, 2023
Episode 5: Sam Bankman-Fried's Future Fund, November 9 2022
Jul 11, 2023
Episode 4: Is AI Art Actually 'Art'? October 26, 2022
Jul 02, 2023
Episode 3: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 3, September 23, 2022
Jun 19, 2023
Episode 2: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 2, September 6, 2022
Jun 19, 2023
Episode 1: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 1, August 31, 2022
May 31, 2023