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In his article, "The False Promise of ChatGPT," the eminent linguist Noam Chomsky critiques AI technology, emphasizing its limitations in…
Emily M. Bender is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington in the US who specializes in Computational…
In a recent LinkedIn post, Miryam Seers, a lawyer-linguist and Chair of the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee, highlighted a rather…
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The stochastic parrot is the invention of linguist Emily Bender – the creator of another memorable fictional animal, the Statistical…
The linguist Emily Bender has recently given another illustration of the way AI cannot grasp meaning.
Alan Turing, one of the pioneer theoreticians of computing, proposed what is now known as the Turing Test: if a…
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