The Case Against AI (Robert Wright, Alex Hanna, and Emily Bender) (opens in new tab)

Listen now (71 mins) | 0:00 Teaser 0:59 Alex and Emily’s book, The AI Con 5:05 Beyond the AI booster-doomer spectrum 10:27 What—and who—is AI actually useful for? 19:54 The AI productivity question(s) 30:48 Emily: AI won’t take your job, it’ll just make it shi**ier 39:50 Stochastic parrots, Chinese rooms, and semantics 46:04 Are LLMs really black boxes? 56:33 Do AIs “understand” things? 59:49 Debating using AIs as experts 1:08:15 How “neural” are neural nets, really? Robert Wright ...