I'm Solving a Problem With a Eye

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People will often sell ai as cheaper. Am, but that doesn't necessarily take into account the cost of building the system and maintaining it over time. The idea that you would do it with a i is at the very least, being wilfully ignorant of the reason that the place is underserved to begin with. It's because we as people have not invested in the particular place. And so that is a problem that is within our power to solve. Wea do it just by, like, you know, passing some billsili like, just through regular human shit can solve it.

Is artificial intelligence a problem, or is the real problem how we’re using the term in the first place? Linguistics professor Emily Bender joins Adam to discuss why we should resist the urge to be impressed when it comes to big tech’s AI promises, and how our belief in the fantasy of A.I. could be worse than the reality. You can follow Emily on Twitter at @emilymbender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.