73: Consequences of Language (with Nick Enfield and Morten Christiansen)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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The Skepticism of the Concept of Stochastic Parrots
When people imagine that large language models have achieved sentience, what they're essentially doing is making up the social. It's like they're meeting more than halfway and imagining a social relationship. So underneath, I think, there's something very important about our attribution to other agents.
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