Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Dec 4, 2022

With #Galactica and #ChatGPT I'm seeing people again getting excited about the prospect of using language models to "access knowledge" (i.e. instead of search engines). They are not fit for that purpose --- both because they are designed to just make shit up and because they don't support information literacy. Chirag Shah and I lay this out in detail in our CHIIR 2022 paper:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816

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Situating Search | Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

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There's a new NEH granting program that seems ideally suited for exploring this issue at least in the domain of the humanities. So interesting!!

https://www.neh.gov/program/dangers-and-opportunities-technology-perspectives-humanities

Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities

Supports research examining the relationship between technology and society.

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