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Emily M. Bender (she/her)

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:

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366

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L Thorne McCarty

@emilymbender

This thread from Twitter makes a similar argument with some background information about Google's search strategy:

twitter.com/deliprao/status/15

Emily M. Bender (she/her)

@ltmccarty The initial proposals that Shah & I were reacting to in our paper came from ... Google (including Sundar Pichai himself at GoogleIO).

Elisa Beshero-Bondar

@emilymbender Thanks for sharing these! I’m adding as good readings to my #digitalhumanities syllabi for spring.

rajesh bilimoria

@emilymbender In addition to the TR piece, your interview from May in pnw.ai might also be useful here, particularly for its point about terms and framing (and reference to Stefano Quintarelli's alternative term for AI: “SALAMI” = “systematic approaches to learning algorithms and machine inferences”) pnw.ai/article/the-problem-wit

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