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ChatGPT Is Not Intelligent w/ Emily M. Bender

Tech Won't Save Us

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The Importance of Language Models in Machine Translation

In the 1980s, some researchers at IBM said that same thing could be used for machine translation. The idea was basically that French speaker actually said something in English, but it came out garbled. And then you have a separate thing called a language model that chooses among those possible outputs to say, well, this is the one that actually looks like English if we're doing English.

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