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AI sceptic Emily Bender: 'The emperor has no clothes' (ft.com)
5 points by oppodeldoc 9 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Companies 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.


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).




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