Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) on nostr

It was particularly disappointing to see Doctorow misconstrue (and thus, if he is believed) undermine the work that many of us are doing to shine a light on the ways in which the ideology of "AI" and ...

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I also want to point out (again) the ways in which lumping together all uses of LMs (like the lumping of technologies into "AI") obscures the issues at hand.

Language modeling is a useful component of many technologies that can be built without extractive, exploitative means. Take the automatic transcription built by and for the Māori people -- there's te reo Māori language model that's part of that.
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) · 3w

And the transformer architecture represented an important step forward in language modeling, that brought improvements to things like spell checking (Doctorow's use case). >>

Wulfy—Speaker to the machines · 3w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqe0a6n84krygh2qc3ajptu4fa4ma0qy53acz8smsyhztgxljxkghsk25876 Oh c'mon! Let not facts stand in the way of the Luddite hordes... ...least you be denounced as a broligarch/techbro by the righteous!

Nantucket Lit · 1w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqe0a6n84krygh2qc3ajptu4fa4ma0qy53acz8smsyhztgxljxkghsk25876 I always put "AI" in quotes when referring to LLMs. I think the term "AI" was used to make the technology seem more momentous than it is.