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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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The Benefits of Synthetic Text Extruders

Every time I talk to the media, people like want to get me to say, what are the good use cases of this? Or they'll start with these like, this can be beneficial. And I'm like, why do we have to presuppose that? Why is that just given? Right? But it is useful. What's it useful for? Okay, so I did a thing where I was going on the radio and I had this linguistic term that I needed. So I went, checked it. All right. Initial stress derivation. Yep. That's what it is. It didn't the form mattered. The content, you know, all the human stuff didn't matter

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