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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... of error is in both creative writing and computational linguistics? EMB: I think the role of error as a human experiencing it is a chance to learn something. Right? If you do something that is wrong in some way, and you have a chance to learn from that and learn what the impacts are and what you can...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... of justified true belief, suggesting the need to revisit the long neglected relationship between language and reference. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Rafael C. Alvarado 2024 artificial intelligence large language models epistemology linguistics If you had to identify a single...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... understandings of language, inaugurated during the imperial age of national print cultures and further consolidated by computing culture itself. However, understanding languages as digital data sets whose patterns can be probabilistically reproduced is a simplistic reduction of an already reified linguistic...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... . Stroudsburg, PA : Association for Computational Linguistics . https://aclanthology.org/D07-1090/ . Brown, Peter F ., Vincent J. Della Pietra , Stephen A. Della Pietra , and Robert L. Mercer . 1993 . “ The Mathematics of Statistical Machine Translation .” Computational Linguistics 19...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... . Bender, Emily M. , and Alexander Koller . 2020 . “ Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data .” In Proceedings of the Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , 5185 – 98 . Stroudsburg, PA : Association for Computational...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
.... , and Alexander Koller . 2020 . “ Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data .” In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , 5185 – 98 . https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.463 . Benjamin, Ruha . 2019 . Race after...
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning , by Justin E. H. Smith
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... around the Arab Spring's final gasps in 2011–12 as a definitive moment in internet history, as he alludes to elsewhere in a 2022 post for the Next Big Idea Club). Haunting the history of computing and machine intelligence, too, is a linguistic formalization of thought as algorithmic. Smith performs...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
.... Bender et al. (2021), as a case for interdisciplinary thinking about critical ontologies. Authored by a team of computational linguists and AI ethicists, the essay makes a strong distinction between an LLM's ability to manipulate the form of language and its inability to understand those language forms...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... Viveiros de Castro ( 2015 : 4) has described as a “Culture/Nature distinction,” according to which “persons and things (also, humans and non-humans)” and “language meanings and extra-linguistic reality (concepts and objects)” are irrevocably divided. As frequent collaborators, we coauthors differ...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... is the rate at which you must pull them. While the quality of the linguistic product is somewhat lackluster, the unit cost is low and getting lower. “In machinery,” Marx wrote, “knowledge appears as alien” ([ 1973 ] 1993: 695). This comment, from the Grundrisse , begins to theorize the strange new mode...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning.” In another important account, the novelist Ted Chiang ( 2023 ) likens the model underlying ChatGPT to a “blurry...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... content moderators in the Global South; workers whose jobs are eliminated or downgraded because of automation; artists and writers whose creative work is ingested and imitated without consent; minoritized cultures and linguistic populations whose language and culture are distorted, appropriated...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... air; the students seemed like they were on the verge of revolt. Not because they did not grasp the technical nuances of XML or were disinterested in corpus linguistics; they just were not interested in the data they were meant to structure. Putting on a bright smile, I asked: “How can I help you start...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... language models. Here is the key claim: “This is a world where massive amounts of data and applied mathematics replace every other tool that might be brought to bear. Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do...
