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79: A.I. Hype Hosedown (with Emily Bender and Jack Hessel)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Deanthropomorphic Fallacy in Language Models

It's something like the user gives the input and I'm trying to say the user asks because I don't want to describe this as a conversation. It's not a speech act. Well, the user's speech act maybe is but on the computer side,. all it's getting is input and the output is something like, don't you love the feel of sun on your skin? But from my training data, I know that, etc. That's a good answer. Yeah. As a large language model, I actually don't have skin and therefore can't understand what it would feel like, etc. The companies designing it are leaning way into that. They have no accountability. They have

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