Techtonic with Mark Hurst:
Playlist
from December 9, 2024
 |
View Mark Hurst's profile
|
Conversations with creators and thinkers who are charting the way forward in a tech-saturated society. In our shift to a digital future, we need alternatives to Big Tech. Homepage: techtonic.fm
Also available as an MP3 podcast.
More info at our Podcast Central page.
<-- Previous playlist | Back to Techtonic with Mark Hurst playlists | Next playlist -->
Upcoming events:
- Mon. Dec 23rd, 6pm - 7pm:
Don Fleming guest hosts Techtonic
December 9, 2024: Arvind Narayanan, author, "AI Snake Oil"
Listen to this show:
MP3 - 128K | 
Pop-up player!
Today: Arvind Narayanan, author, "AI Snake Oil"
AI isn't living up to its hype. In healthcare, criminal justice, finance, and social media moderation, AI is repeatedly failing to bring the benefits promised by Big Tech. Author and Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan explains these failures, and what we can do about it, in his new book “AI Snake Oil.”
• AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference, by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
• AISnakeOil.com, the newsletter from Narayanan and Kapoor
• PDF: The Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project (2017)
• UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges (ArsTechnica, Nov 16, 2023): "For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug." Excerpt:
The lawsuit argues that UnitedHealth should have been well aware of the "blatant inaccuracy" of nH Predict's estimates based on its error rate. Though few patients appeal coverage denials generally, when UnitedHealth members appeal denials based on nH Predict estimates—through internal appeals processes or through the federal Administrative Law Judge proceedings—over 90 percent of the denials are reversed, the lawsuit claims. This makes it obvious that the algorithm is wrongly denying coverage, it argues.
But, instead of changing course, over the last two years, NaviHealth employees have been told to hew closer and closer to the algorithm's predictions. In 2022, case managers were told to keep patients' stays in nursing homes to within 3 percent of the days projected by the algorithm, according to documents obtained by Stat. In 2023, the target was narrowed to 1 percent.
Sign up to get Mark’s weekly email newsletter.
Follow Mark on Bluesky or Mastodon.
PAST EPISODES: techtonic.fm lists recent Techtonic shows.
PODCAST: If you use an open podcast player reader, here’s an RSS feed. If you have to use a Big Tech podcast app, here’s Techtonic on iTunes.
| Artist | Track | Images | Approx. start time | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arvind Narayanan, author, "AI Snake Oil" | ||||||||||
| Tomaš Dvořák |
Game Boy Tune
|
|
||||||||
| Mark's intro |
|
|||||||||
| Interview with Arvind Narayanan |
|
0:04:54 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||||||
| Mark's comments |
|
0:47:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||||||
| Waveshaper |
E.P.R.O.M.
|
|
0:55:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||||||
<-- Previous playlist | Back to Techtonic with Mark Hurst playlists | Next playlist -->
RSS feeds for Techtonic with Mark Hurst:
Playlists feed | 
MP3 archives feed
| E-mail Mark Hurst | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by Techtonic with Mark Hurst |Listen on the Internet | Contact Us | Music & Programs | WFMU Home Page | Support Us | FAQ
Live Audio Streams for WFMU: Pop-up | 128k AAC | 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 (More streams: [+])
Listener comments!
chresti:
Will thee SG OCNY:
tak:
mistercaz:
ultradamno:
joe_rosevear:
Will thee SG OCNY:
tom tom the pipers son:
Deano de los Muertos:
Wendy del Formaggio:
newton:
tim:
newton:
Deb from California:
.
joe_rosevear:
Spikey BXL:
Peter from Saranac Lake NY:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Wendy del Formaggio:
tom tom the pipers son:
Spikey BXL:
MarciB:
Sam:
MarciB:
joe_rosevear:
DjLorraine:
Sam:
Bas NL:
su:
joe_rosevear:
Mark Hurst:
Mark Hurst:
Deb from California:
dale:
MarciB:
tom tom the pipers son:
mistercaz:
Sam:
Sam:
dale:
tom tom the pipers son:
Folsom:
Mark Hurst:
DjLorraine:
Mark Hurst:
joe_rosevear:
Webhamster Henry:
Mark Hurst:
joe_rosevear:
tom tom the pipers son:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Not Ideal: It's a Google document — forms.gle...
Deb from California:
Wendy del Formaggio:
Hugo (NL):
Danny in Poughkeepsie:
Will thee SG OCNY:
castor:
Marie in Chicag0:
joe_rosevear:
Mark Hurst:
VantuckyEd:
Mark Hurst:
tom tom the pipers son:
tim:
Will thee SG OCNY:
MarciB:
"The GPT Era is Already Ending" . I haven't read it yet but am hopeful...
Wendy del Formaggio:
Folsom:
Wendy del Formaggio:
Webhamster Henry:
tim:
Wendy del Formaggio:
tim:
tom tom the pipers son:
Wendy del Formaggio:
Webhamster Henry:
tim:
Will thee SG OCNY:
Folsom:
Wendy del Formaggio:
Full disclosure: when I'm not being a super cool person on the WFMU chats, or hosting my own radio show, I'm a librarian at a public library here in Vermont.
Wendy del Formaggio:
tim:
egould:
Wendy del Formaggio:
joe_rosevear:
egould:
VantuckyEd:
Ken From Hyde Park:
egould:
joe_rosevear:
egould:
Wendy del Formaggio:
tom tom the pipers son:
VantuckyEd:
joe_rosevear:
tim:
Deb from California:
MarciB:
VantuckyEd:
joe_rosevear:
egould:
biomurph:
VantuckyEd:
joe_rosevear:
tim:
Will thee SG OCNY:
Luigi Mangione:
Bas NL:
dale:
Webhamster Henry:
chresti:
VantuckyEd:
dale:
joe_rosevear:
wimpy:
tim:
VantuckyEd:
VantuckyEd:
egould:
gauche knee:
Wendy del Formaggio:
bleubombersune:
tim:
dale:
Folsom:
Will thee SG OCNY:
Eraseable Programable Read Only Memory
Ken From Hyde Park:
mistercaz:
Bas NL:
Mark Hurst:
Mark Hurst:
coelacanth∅: