Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEpisode 26: Universities Anxiously Buy in to the Hype (feat. Chris Gilliard), February 5 2024
Episode 26
Just Tech Fellow Dr. Chris Gilliard aka "Hypervisible" joins Emily and Alex to talk about the wave of universities adopting AI-driven educational tec…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 25: An LLM Says LLMs Can Do Your Job, January 22 2024
Episode 25
Is ChatGPT really going to take your job? Emily and Alex unpack two hype-tastic papers that make implausible claims about the number of workforce tas…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 24: AI Won't Solve Structural Inequality (feat. Kerry McInerney & Eleanor Drage), January 8 2024
Episode 24
New year, same Bullshit Mountain. Alex and Emily are joined by feminist technosolutionism critics Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney to tear down the …
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 23: AI Hell Freezes Over, December 22 2023
Episode 23
AI Hell has frozen over for a single hour. Alex and Emily visit all seven circles in a tour of the worst in bite-sized BS.
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Pentagon moving …
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 22: Congressional 'AI' Hearings Say More about Lawmakers (feat. Justin Hendrix), December 18 2023
Episode 22
Congress spent 2023 busy with hearings to investigate the capabilities, risks and potential uses of large language models and other 'artificial intel…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 21: The True Meaning of 'Open Source' (feat. Sarah West and Andreas Liesenfeld), November 20 2023
Episode 21
Researchers Sarah West and Andreas Liesenfeld join Alex and Emily to examine what software companies really mean when they say their work is 'open so…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 20: Let's Do the Time Warp! (to the "Founding" of "Artificial Intelligence"), November 6 2023
Episode 20
Emily and Alex time travel back to a conference of men who gathered at Dartmouth College in the summer of 1956 to examine problems relating to comput…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 19: The Murky Climate and Environmental Impact of Large Language Models, November 6 2023
Episode 20
Drs. Emma Strubell and Sasha Luccioni join Emily and Alex for an environment-focused hour of AI hype. How much carbon does a single use of ChatGPT em…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 18: Rumors of Artificial General Intelligence Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, October 23 2023
Episode 18
Emily and Alex read through Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas' recent proclamation that "artificial general intelligence is already here." …
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 17: Back to School with AI Hype in Education (feat. Haley Lepp), September 22 2023
Episode 17
Emily and Alex are joined by Stanford PhD student Haley Lepp to examine the increasing hype around LLMs in education spaces - whether they're pitched…
2 years, 5 months ago