About this episode
It’s been a long year in the AI hype mines. And no matter how many claims Emily and Alex debunk, there's always a backlog of Fresh AI Hell. This week, another whirlwind attempt to clear it, with plenty of palate cleansers along the way.Fresh AI Hell:Part I: EducationMedical residency assignments"AI generated" UCLA course"Could ChatGPT get an engineering degree?"AI letters of recommendationChaser: 'AI' isn't Tinkerbell and we don’t have to clapPart II: Potpourri, as in really rottenAI x parentingEt tu, Firefox?US military tests AI machine gun"Over-indexing" genAI failingsAI denying social benefitsChaser: AI 'granny' vs scammers Part III: The Endangered Information EcosystemFake Emily quote in LLM-written articleProtecting WikipediaAI: the new plasticGoogle AI on 'dressing'"AI" archaeologyMisinfo scholar used ChatGPTOpenAI erases lawsuit evidenceLAT "AI" bias meterWaPo AI search: The Washington Post burns its own archiveChaser: ShotSpotter as artPart IV: Surveillance, AI in science/medicineApple patents "body data"Chatbots "defeat" doctorsAlgorithm for healthcare "overuse""AI friendships""Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas?"Another LLM for scienceChaser: FTC vs VenntelPart V: They tell us to believe the hypeThomas Friedman: AGI is comingMatteo Wong on o1's 'reasoning'WIRED editor: believe the hypeSalesforce CEO: The "unlimited age"Chaser: Emily and Alex's forthcoming book! Pre-order THE AI CON: How to FightCheck out future streams on
