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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) · 7w
6- Exceptionalism. "I know this can be dangerous for people in general, but I know how to use it carefully."/"I know how to verify every output, and I am not deskilling myself." How do you know? Also,...
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So what is the best way out of that uncomfortable, untenable space? I think one key step is disaggregating the (non-coherent) set of technologies sold as "AI". If you don't call the stuff you work with "AI", you aren't saddled with trying to defend any of the rest of it.
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) · 7w
The most recent iteration of this conversation I was involved in turned in part on a strange, over-expansive definition of "genAI" which included, for ex, optical character recognition (OCR). >>
teq · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqe0a6n84krygh2qc3ajptu4fa4ma0qy53acz8smsyhztgxljxkghsk25876 Thanks for this thread. I'm particularly interested in your examples of why AI it is not a useful technical term (and we should be referring to specific tools instead) especially withi...