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AI sceptic Emily Bender: 'The emperor has no clothes'
- sherdil2022 1y agohttps://archive.ph/H4aZY https://archive.ph/H4aZY Worth reading. Cuts through and gets to the reason for the AI hype and what AI is actually all about (automation in a shiny wrapper and is little more than a “stochastic parrot”, a term that she coined in a 2021 paper).
- alganet 1y agoCompanies are swiftly moving from an "intelligence" narrative to an "augmentation" narrative (I think it's also doomed). I think the linguists already won, but the AI tale is so tall it hasn't had the time to hit the ground yet. LLMs will probably find some use though.