Rhetorical Technology - Emily M. Bender

Josh and Ray are joined by computational linguist Dr. Emily M. Bender to discuss what "AI" really is, and why the slippery nature of the term is very much intentional. We look at the eugenicist history of the quest to define and measure human intelligence and try to understand what the project of "artificial intelligence" is, then explore LLMs as synthetic text extruding machines and automation technology, as opposed to a machine god on the cusp of being born.

Mentioned in this episode:

1. Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 - podcast by Drs. Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna [permalink]
2. THE AI CON - How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want - book by Drs. Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna  [permalink]
3. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 - paper by Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, et al. [permalink]
4. Ghost in the Machine - film by Valerie Veatch [permalink]
5. The TESCREAL Bundle - paper by Timnit Gebru and Émile Torres [permalink]