Archive - AI Snake Oil

We had a busy 2022. Here are a few things we worked on but didn’t cover here.

Arvind Narayanan

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Dec 31, 2022

The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without regard for the truth. By this measure, OpenAI’s new…

Arvind Narayanan

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Dec 6, 2022

November 2022

Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry. The developer claimed the tool achieved over 90…

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Arvind Narayanan

Nov 17, 2022

October 2022

Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.

Arvind Narayanan

Oct 21, 2022

September 2022

A checklist for avoiding hype

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Arvind Narayanan

Sep 30, 2022

Over 90% of images of AI produced by a popular image generation tool contain humanoids

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Arvind Narayanan

Sep 9, 2022

August 2022

Deep learning researchers have proved skeptics wrong before, but the past doesn't predict the future.

Arvind Narayanan

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Aug 31, 2022

What makes AI click, what makes it snake oil, and how to tell the difference

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Arvind Narayanan

Aug 25, 2022

Something weird happened on November 19, 2019. When a professor shares scholarly slides online, they are usually intended for a niche group of peers…

Arvind Narayanan

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Aug 25, 2022

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