Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEpisode 16: Med-PaLM or Facepalm? A Second Opinion On LLMs In Healthcare (feat. Roxana Daneshjou), August 28, 2023
Episode 16
Alex and Emily are taking another stab at Google and other companies' aspirations to be part of the healthcare system - this time with the expertise …
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 15: The White House And Big Tech Dance The Self-Regulation Tango, August 11 2023
Episode 15
Emily and Alex tackle the White House hype about the 'voluntary commitments' of companies to limit the harms of their large language models: but only…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 14: Henry Kissinger, Machines of War, and the Age of Military AI Hype (feat. Lucy Suchman), July 21 2023
Episode 14
Emily and Alex are joined by technology scholar Dr. Lucy Suchman to scrutinize a new book from Henry Kissinger and coauthors Eric Schmidt and Daniel …
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 13: Beware The Robo-Therapist (feat. Hannah Zeavin), June 8 2023
Episode 13
Emily and Alex talk to UC Berkeley scholar Hannah Zeavin about the case of the National Eating Disorders Association helpline, which tried to replace…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 12: It's All Hell, May 5 2023
Episode 12
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.
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2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 11: A GPT-4 Fanfiction Novella, April 7 2023
Episode 11
After a hype-y few weeks of AI happenings, Alex and Emily shovel the BS on GPT-4’s “system card,” its alleged “sparks of Artificial General Intellige…
2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 10: Don't Be A Lawyer, ChatGPT. March 3, 2023
Episode 10
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…
2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 9: Call the AI Quack Doctor, February 17, 2023
Episode 9
Should the mathy-maths be telling doctors what might be wrong with you? And can they actually help train medical professionals to treat human patient…
2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 8: The ChatGPT Awakens, January 20, 2023
Episode 8
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 …
2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 7: There Are Now 15 Competing Evaluation Metrics (ft. Dr. Jeremy Kahn). December 12, 2022
Episode 7
Emily and Alex are joined by Dr. Jeremy G. Kahn to discuss the distressingly large number of evaluation metrics for artificial intelligence, and some…
2 years, 8 months ago