Take a deep breath and join Alex and Emily in hell itself, as they take down a month's worth of hype in a mere 60 minutes.

This episode aired on Friday, May 5, 2023.

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References:

Terrifying NEJM article on GPT-4 in medicine: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr2214184

“Healthcare professionals preferred ChatGPT 79% of the time”: https://twitter.com/mdredze/status/1652025887355723776

Good thoughts from various experts in response: https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-comparing-physician-and-ai-chatbot-responses-to-patient-questions/

ChatGPT supposedly reading dental x-rays: https://www.cureus.com/articles/154683-chatgpt-in-dentistry-a-comprehensive-review?score_article=true#!/

Chatbots “need” therapists: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00416

CEO proposes AI therapist, removes proposal upon realizing there’s regulation: https://twitter.com/BEASTMODE/status/1650013819693944833 (deleted) https://twitter.com/NecroKuma3/status/1650713432369315840 https://twitter.com/NecroKuma3/status/1650708989196337152

ChatGPT is more carbon efficient than human writers: https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-2724922/v1_covered.pdf?c=1680083818

Asking the disinformation machine for confirmation bias: https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1646965265857671168?s=20

GPT-4 glasses to tell you what to say on dates, "Charisma as a Service": https://futurism.com/the-byte/smart-glasses-gpt-4?fbclid=IwAR0s8miqhKqg0eIoYmR5zZc2g-zLh8DJ0hKFzMkS7Hs1lypEn5kWCNWosGA

Context-aware fill for missing data: https://twitter.com/jmeickle/status/1649419835980251141?s=20

“Overemployed” with help from ChatGPT: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7begx/overemployed-hustlers-exploit-chatgpt-to-take-on-even-more-full-time-jobs

Pakistani court uses GPT-4 in bail decision: https://interestingengineering.com/culture/pakistani-court-utilizes-chatgpt-4-to-grant-bail ChaGPT in Peruvian and Mexican courts: https://techpolicy.press/judges-and-magistrates-in-peru-and-mexico-have-chatgpt-fever/

Elon Musk’s deepfake defense: https://twitter.com/Wolven/status/1652195823285837825?t=IY5iySp1NrXPrDYshl1zng&s=19 "Epistemic crisis go brrrrr": https://twitter.com/Wolven/status/1652330424297828352?s=20

Elon Musk's TruthGPT: https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1648081976400703488 https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/17/23687440/elon-musk-truthgpt-ai-chatgpt

Fake interview in German publication revealed as “AI” at the end of the article: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/28/1172473999/michael-schumacher-ai-interview-german-magazine

Stealing people’s voices, including those of voice actors: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1650907842608611350

Hollywood writer’s strike & negotiating when & how “AI” can be used / AI as scabs: https://twitter.com/harikunzru/status/1653391872172126214?s=20

AI will replace teachers: https://www.gizchina.com/2023/04/26/bill-gates-chatgpt-will-soon-be-able-to-replace-teachers/

Geoffrey Hinton’s "x-risk" media tour: https://twitter.com/xeegeex/status/1653549010094014466 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/04/bernie-sanders-elon-musk-and-white-house-seeking-my-help-says-godfather-of-ai

Mind-reading machines: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01486-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01304-9

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