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Podcast: Stay Human, from the Artificiality Institute
Episode: Emily M. Bender: AI, Linguistics, Parrots, and more!
Description: We're excited to welcome to the podcast Emily M. Bender, professor of computational linguistics at the University of Washington.
As our listeners know, we enjoy tapping expertise in fields adjacent to the intersection of humans and AI. We find Emily’s expertise in linguistics to be particularly important when understanding the capabilities and limitations of large language models—and that’s why we were eager to talk with her.
Emily is perhaps best known in the AI community for coining the term "stochastic parrots" to describe these models, highlighting their ability to mimic human language withou...