[ExI] Emily M. Bender — Language Models and Linguistics (video interview)

[Gordon Swobe]

I mentioned Emily Pender in another thread. She is Professor of Linguistics
and Faculty Director of the Master's Program in Computational Linguistics
at University of Washington.

In the other thread, I made the mistake of introducing her with her
Octopus thought experiment which I soon realized from the responses here is
easily misinterpreted outside of the context of her general thesis and the
academic paper in which she introduced it.

As I learned from this interview, she and her colleague Koller wrote that
paper in response to a twitter debate in which she found herself arguing
with non-linguists who insist that language models understand language.
Like me, she is critical of such claims. She considers them "hype."

The relevant material starts at the 26 minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaxNN3YRhBA
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