
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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Mystery AI Hyped Theater 3000
I feel like this has been a super wide range of discussion. The one thing that hasn't come up is Mystery AI Hope Theater 3000. It started off life as a Twitch stream together with Alex Hanna. I thought when we had this discussion, we'd be talking about large language models and computers and AI but really we're talking about society. Of course it's languages social. Language is social and tool uses social and these things are actually just tools. Can't get away from it.
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