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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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Chat GPT is the same way. When we put in an input, we are creating a context in which we are prepared to interpret the output. A second one is the octopus. So this comes from Bender in Kohler 2020. It has a fun story and it actually has a credit for being an octopus goes to my co-author Alexander Kohler. And also, as Alexander very correctly said, octopuses are just inherently funnier. They're just, they're just cooler. Yeah. There's a whole conversation to be had at what's the plural of octipuses. I go with octopities. Great. But I'm not tied to that. We

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