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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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Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of AI

The deanthropomorphized answer is this system is a large language model and does not have a body. Therefore, it has no feelings about sun or skin, etc. It could be much, much better. We know some things about what large language models are and are doing. But to say that these algorithms are doing language like we do is to deny something about the humanness of what we're doing. So dehumanization is a problem.

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