Wen: We are so good at interpreting language, we can't help but imagine a mind behind it. Wen: If you could create an algorithm in the infinite room that any time a monkey typed a character that was not part of shakespeare, a bullet goes through the monkey's brain and and the monkey drops dead. And you hand that to some one, it would be to say, oh, well, that monkey is intelligent, right? Because you have algarithmically sorded the random ness in such a way that you've produced an output that we find sensical. A we we would understand that that is just the output of a dumb algorithm. But because
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.
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