Emily Bender
Emily Bender is a prominent linguist and professor known for her work in computational linguistics and natural language processing. She has been vocal about the limitations and ethical implications of artificial intelligence, particularly in the context of language models. Bender is widely recognized for coining the term 'parrot' to describe AI systems like ChatGPT, which can generate text without understanding the underlying meaning. Her critiques focus on the risks of overestimating AI's capabilities and the need for a nuanced understanding of language and intelligence in both humans and machines.
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South Africa:
Emily Bender argues that there is nothing inherently intelligent about these technologies.
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Liechtenstein:
Emily Bender is a famous linguist and critic of AI who believes that the proliferation of synthetic texts online makes it impossible to avoid the influence of technology.
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Liechtenstein:
Emily Bender highlights that language models capture only the form of language without accessing its meaning.
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Italy:
Emily Bender is known for her definition of ChatGPT as a 'parrot' that assembles words based on statistical probabilities.
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