"AI" research community: 1) Claims to be building "everything machines", doesn't acknowledge that that means what they're doing is untestable (see Gebru & Torres 2024) https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636 2) Plays leaderboard games instead of doing serious evaluation (see Raji et al 2021)

AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark

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Happy birthday to our little pod! In Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Ep 63 @Alex Hanna and I reflect on three years (three years!) of ridicule as praxis & answer listener questions.

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Three Years of Ridicule as Praxis, 2025.09.19 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

It's Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000's third birthday! To celebrate, Emily and Alex respond to listener questions about the show, and reflect on the p...

Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!

Today! ~~ Ever get the sense that AI boosters seem to take all the wrong lessons from speculative fiction? Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @Alex Hanna and I get to dig into all of that with @roseveleth ! Monday, September 29, noon Pacific

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Join us tomorrow! ~~ Ever get the sense that AI boosters seem to take all the wrong lessons from speculative fiction? Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @Alex Hanna and I get to dig into all of that with @roseveleth ! Monday, September 29, noon Pacific

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UW Public Lectures

The Office of Public Lectures presents: The AI Con with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

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Ever get the sense that AI boosters seem to take all the wrong lessons from speculative fiction? Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @Alex Hanna and I get to dig into all of that with @npub16weg...aqxd ! Monday, September 29, noon Pacific

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Twitch

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Join us tomorrow! ~~~ Questions here:

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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3rd Anniversary - Listener Questions!

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 is turning three! And we want to answer your questions about the show during our livestream recording on Friday, Septe...

Live stream here (9/19, noon Pacific):

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Twitch

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Send us your questions for Friday's podcast birthday party! ~~~ Questions here:

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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3rd Anniversary - Listener Questions!

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 is turning three! And we want to answer your questions about the show during our livestream recording on Friday, Septe...

Live stream here (9/19, noon Pacific):

Twitch

Twitch

Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.

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This is long, but worth it. Some choice quotes:

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Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, mor...

"Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind." Two more >>

TFW your little accidental podcast hits a quarter million downloads! Here's to the next quarter million, @Alex Hanna ! 🥳 And huge gratitude to producers Christie Taylor and Ozzy Llinas Goodman!