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Multiple readings Pangram is not an oracle Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Pangram not oracle essay

Pangram is not an oracle

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Baldur Bjarnason
““Pangram is not an oracle • Buttondown” https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/pangram-is-not-an-oracle/ > But as always, we have to be wary of any proposed technical solutions and evaluate them with care (including asking whether a technical solution is ca…” evidence ↗
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“Some words on how to evaluate language technologies (and caution against using them to undermine others' work) buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...”

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““Pangram is not an oracle • Buttondown” https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/pangram-is-not-an-oracle/ > But as always, we have to be wary of any proposed technical solutions and evaluate them with care (including asking whether a technical solution is ca…”

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Emily M. Bender
“Perhaps this paper, especially the section on "AI" as an ideology, and the other works cited, might be helpful: faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape... >>” evidence ↗
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“Perhaps this paper, especially the section on "AI" as an ideology, and the other works cited, might be helpful: faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape... >>”

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Emily M. Bender: This sign is a great example for helping to explain why chatbots present such a potent illusion. A probably not short thread 🧵>>
Emily M. Bender: A point I frequently make when talking about chatbots is that their output only seems to make sense because we are making sense of it. And worse, we can only do that sense-making by projecting a mi…
Emily M. Bender: While you might think that understanding something someone wrote is simply a matter of unpacking the meaning (or message) they packed into the words, in fact what we do is much cooler and more invo…
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4 experts · 9 posts · 7d ago
Emily M. Bender Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Robin Z
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“and it's important to remember (especially for talking with people who aren't interested in the tech) *you don't need to deeply evaluate or disprove the claims of a con man* you just need to spot t…” evidence ↗
Anthony Moser: *this is funny actually because professor harold hill says you don't need to practice your instrument to get good, you can "use the think method" which is not terribly dissimilar to the pitch made …
Anthony Moser: and it's important to remember (especially for talking with people who aren't interested in the tech) *you don't need to deeply evaluate or disprove the claims of a con man* you just need to spot t…
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2 experts · 7 posts · 6d ago
Emily M. Bender Colin
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“Do you consider modern LLMs that have had reinforcement learning or other post-training techniques applied to be the same kind of thing as what you discussed in the Stochastic Paper & elsewhere, wh…” evidence ↗
Emily M. Bender: I don't actually follow Stancil, but I do follow the phrase "stochastic parrots" and that seems to be a pretty reliable way to get notified when he's on here flaunting his ignorance (about "AI" spe…
Emily M. Bender: Or maybe not -- I guess I don't have any sense of recall, just precision. Perhaps he flaunts his ignorance on this topic even more frequently and I don't see all of it.
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