What a brilliant session with @emilymbender in conversation with @Kobotic at #RMIT tonight.

Key takeaways:
- #BenderRule - name the language you're working in
- #AI is not one technology - it's many in a trenchcoat. Be specific.
- Who benefits from the changes wrought by AI and who bears the harms and externalities?
- AI is hype - learn enough to cut through it, ask difficult questions
- "Pile of racist linear algebra"
- Read everything by @karenhao
- Read #TheAICon by Emily and @alex
- Read @CriticalAI

Were you hoping to see @emilymbender in conversation with @Kobotic in Melbs at #RMIT courtesy of #Readings but they were sold out?

Good news, they've moved to Storey Hall which is 4 x the capacity.

Get your tix 💖

#StochasticParrots #LLMs #BenderRule

https://www.readings.com.au/events/emily-m-bender-and-kobi-leins-discuss-ai

OMG SQUEEEE

@emilymbender is going to be in Melbs in conversation with @Kobotic

Kaleide Theatre, #RMIT
Tuesday 1 July, 6pm AEST

Tix free:
https://www.readings.com.au/events/emily-m-bender-and-kobi-leins-discuss-ai

To discuss her new book #TheAICon written with @alex

If you hate the #AI hype as much as I do and generally think of AI as bullshit generation and epistemic violence then you will love this.

If you loved the #StochasticParrots paper, you will love this.

I try and use the #BenderRule (Bender, 2019) in every talk I give - "state the language in which you practice" - because English is only 1 of 7000 other languages spoken in the world.

@gabriel @alex

There's only one thing (to my knowledge) called the #BenderRule: always name the language you are working on.

And also, there's no such thing as a fully unbiased dataset. So "there may be biases" ... isn't something I'd say.

@[email protected] @emilymbender

Also in daily practice —per bio— you might encounter/ed texts/citations in which the #BenderRule applied:

» The Bender rule is the informal idea that one ought to explicitly mention the name of a language in a publication on language and linguistics.
It is named after Emily Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington (Seattle) who has written and discussed the need to be explicit about languages that one studies. «
https://christiandicanio.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-bender-rule-in-some-linguistics.html

Haven’t read it yet but the title and abstract give me a strong #BenderRule itch

https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-ingestion/2022.emnlp-main.118.pdf

#NLP #NLProc #emnlp2022