Episode 38: Deflating Zoom's 'Digital Twin,' July 29 2024
Could this meeting have been an e-mail that you didn't even have to read? Emily and Alex are tearing into the lofty ambitions of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, who claims the future is a LLM-powered 'digital twi...
14 Aug 20241h 2min
Episode 37: Chatbots Aren't Nurses (feat. Michelle Mahon), July 22 2024
We regret to report that companies are still trying to make generative AI that can 'transform' healthcare -- but without investing in the wellbeing of healthcare workers or other aspects of actual pat...
2 Aug 20241h
Episode 36: About That 'Dangerous Capabilities' Fanfiction (feat. Ali Alkhatib), June 24 2024
When is a research paper not a research paper? When a big tech company uses a preprint server as a means to dodge peer review -- in this case, of their wild speculations on the 'dangerous capabilities...
19 Juli 20241h 2min
Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire (feat. Safiya Noble), June 10 2024
You've already heard about the rock-prescribing, glue pizza-suggesting hazards of Google's AI overviews. But the problems with the internet's most-used search engine go way back. UCLA scholar and "Alg...
3 Juli 20241h 1min
Episode 34: Senate Dot Roadmap Dot Final Dot No Really Dot Docx, June 3 2024
The politicians are at it again: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's series of industry-centric forums last year have birthed a "roadmap" for future legislation. Emily and Alex take a deep dive on ...
20 Juni 20241h 3min
Episode 33: Much Ado About 'AI' 'Deception', May 20 2024
Will the LLMs somehow become so advanced that they learn to lie to us in order to achieve their own ends? It's the stuff of science fiction, and in science fiction these claims should remain. Emily an...
5 Juni 20241h
Episode 32: A Flood of AI Hell, April 29 2024
AI Hell froze over this winter and now a flood of meltwater threatens to drown Alex and Emily. Armed with raincoats and a hastily-written sea shanty*, they tour the realms, from spills of synthetic in...
23 Maj 202457min
Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri), April 15 2024
Will AI someday do all our scientific research for us? Not likely. Drs. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri join for a takedown of the hype of "self-driving labs" and why such misrepresentations also harm...
7 Maj 20241h 2min
