ChatGPT Is Not Intelligent w/ Emily M. Bender
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Evolution of Computational Linguistics
When I was doing my PhD, I started doing sort of the computational side of linguistics. And that is actually the building of grammars by hand in software so that you could automatically do what's effectively the industrial strength equivalent of diagramming sentences. So there was this sort of ongoing debate or discussion between rule-based versus statistical methods. It's still a thing, even though it's frequently framed as the old school way of doing it.
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