Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist
In January, the United Kingdom's new Labour Party prime minister, Keir Starmer, announced a new
Not only is OpenAI's new o3 model allegedly breaking records for how close an LLM can get to th
It’s been a long year in the AI hype mines. And no matter how many claims Emily and Alex debunk, the
Once upon a time, artificial general intelligence was the only business plan OpenAI seemed to have.
From Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, billionaires with no education expertise keep using their big na
The company behind ChatGPT is back with bombastic claim that their new o1 model is capable of so-cal
Technology journalist Paris Marx joins Alex and Emily for a conversation about the environmental har
Can “AI” do your science for you? Should it be your co-author? Or, as one company asks, boldly and b
Did your summer feel like an unending barrage of terrible ideas for how to use “AI”? You’re not alon
Dr. Clara Berridge joins Alex and Emily to talk about the many 'uses' for generative AI in
The Washington Post is going all in on AI -- surely this won't be a repeat of any past, disastr
Could this meeting have been an e-mail that you didn't even have to read? Emily and Alex are te
We regret to report that companies are still trying to make generative AI that can 'transform&a
When is a research paper not a research paper? When a big tech company uses a preprint server as a m
You've already heard about the rock-prescribing, glue pizza-suggesting hazards of Google's
The politicians are at it again: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's series of industry-cent
Will the LLMs somehow become so advanced that they learn to lie to us in order to achieve their own
