Emily Bender: you are not a stochastic parrot / Judith Butler, are we more actualized with AI? from: NY Magazine you are not a parrot
“On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots” is not a write-up of original research. It’s a synthesis of LLM critiques that Bender and others have made: of the biases encoded in the models; the near impossibility of studying what’s in the training data, given the fact they can contain billions of words; the costs to the climate; the problems with building technology that freezes language in time and thus locks in the problems of the past.Please read the whole thing: You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.- Judith Butler, UC Berkley: “Or that human potential — that’s the fascist idea — human potential is more fully actualized with AI than without it”. AGAIN :-), please read the whole thing
Previously
- January 9, 2020: Working with 4 University of Alberta Computer Science Students in the CANOSP program on a machine learning project to auto-tag Firefox desktop support questions based on a human trained dataset <- in retrospect this seems like a primitive project now :-) Is this better with GPT-3 or 4?