18 corrections in a 659-word AI-written Men's Journal article about low testosterone. AI language tools generate cogent word patterns, not facts - an obvious issue that so many companies are going to embarrass themselves learning in the coming years

https://futurism.com/neoscope/magazine-mens-journal-errors-ai-health-article

New to mastodon. Here's a video in which I showcase the changing sound of English from the 8th century to the 19th, from Beowulf to Ben Franklin's Fart Joke and John Keats

I tend to make a lot of content like this as a hobby.

Also I post about various weird questions in linguistics.

Also I translate poetry, like a lot.

@linguistics

In our lab meeting, we discussed an interesting paper on #theory testing and effect sizes:

When the numbers do not add up: The practical limits of stochastologicals for soft psychology (Broers, 2021) https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620970557

"The key question must be how a scientific discipline that rests on purely verbal theories succeeds in inserting quantity into its thinking. The important follow-up question must be what meaning, if any, do such quantities have at the theoretical level of psychology."