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Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire (feat. Safiya Noble), June 10 2024

Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire (feat. Safiya Noble), June 10 2024

FromMystery AI Hype Theater 3000


Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire (feat. Safiya Noble), June 10 2024

FromMystery AI Hype Theater 3000

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Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Jul 3, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

You've already heard about the rock-prescribing, glue pizza-suggesting hazards of Google's AI overviews. But the problems with the internet's most-used search engine go way back. UCLA scholar and "Algorithms of Oppression" author Safiya Noble joins Alex and Emily in a conversation about how Google has long been breaking our information ecosystem in the name of shareholders and ad sales.References:Blog post, May 14: Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for youBlog post, May 30: AI Overviews: About last weekAlgorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, by Safiya NobleFresh AI Hell:AI Catholic priest demoted after saying it's OK to baptize babies with GatoradeNational Archives bans use of ChatGPTChatGPT better than humans at "Moral Turing Test"Taco Bell as an "AI first" companyAGI by 2027, in one hilarious graphYou can check out future livestreams at https://twitch.tv/DAIR_Institute.Subscribe to our newsletter via Buttondown. Follow us!Emily Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyMBender Mastodon: https://dair-community.social/@EmilyMBender Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/emilymbender.bsky.social Alex Twitter: https://twitter.com/@alexhanna Mastodon: https://dair-community.social/@alex Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alexhanna.bsky.social Music by Toby Menon.Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. Production by Christie Taylor.
Released:
Jul 3, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (35)

Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.