ChatGPT Is Not Intelligent w/ Emily M. Bender
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Conduit Metaphor in Language Acquisition
The idea is that these systems, I think we use the phrase haphazardly stitch together words from their training data because they fit in terms of word distribution. It's just kind of learning how these things are usually put together and based on the prompt that's given trying to put the words together in an order that looks like it would make sense basically. So anything that has to do with the form of language, these things are great at, they're great at stylistics. But it's still, there's no hair there,. But we want there to be, right? This is something that is visceral, it's automatic, it's really hard to turn off.
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