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79: A.I. Hype Hosedown (with Emily Bender and Jack Hessel)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Mystery AI Hyped Theater 3000

It started with this one terrible blog post that came out in July or August of last year by Blaise Aguirre Archas entitled, Can Machines Learn How to Behave? And it was just like AI hype through and through. So we had the idea to look at AI hype artifacts and basically give them that treatment. It took us three hour long episodes to get through that one blog post and then we kept going. The framing vignettes aren't so great, but what they do with the movies is great.

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