Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at University of Washington, about her paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜", Google firing Drs. Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two of the co-authors, and the dangers of large language models and NLP.
We also briefly discuss Lord Digby Jones and his classism and Alex Scott's amazing comeback.
Deborah Raji's MIT Technology Review paper.
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