Notices by Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social), page 8

#5: Episode 30: Marc's Miserable Manifesto, April 1 2024, with guest host @timnitGebru

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/14916180-episode-30-marc-s-miserable-manifesto-april-1-2024

Calling all Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 fans! Have you found a piece of Fresh AI Hell but not known where to send it? Here's the spot:

https://thecon.ai/submit-fresh-ai-hell/

Help @alex and me clean out the Fresh Hell by submitting it there!

I am super excited to share that my forthcoming book with @alex, THE AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want, is now available for pre-order!

All the details here: https://thecon.ai/

Join us today!

It’s a bit like trying to shovel the walk in the middle of a blizzard, but @alex and I are going to attempt to clear the backlog of Fresh AI Hell in our next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream:

Monday, Dec 9, noon Pacific
https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Tomorrow!

It’s a bit like trying to shovel the walk in the middle of a blizzard, but @alex and I are going to attempt to clear the backlog of Fresh AI Hell in our next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream:

Monday, Dec 9, noon Pacific
https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Grateful to WHYY's The Pulse for the opportunity to talk about why ChatGPT et al don't understand (but seem like they do). I was also happy to hear that for a segment on using "AI" in the context of language reclamation they spoke with an Indigenous person engaged in that project -- and especially happy to hear the segment with Peter-Lucas Jones (CEO of Te Hiku Media).

https://whyy.org/episodes/parrot-or-prophet-how-ai-is-shaping-language/

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The last segment was a bit confused about how exactly language models are useful in sociolinguistic research (I'm sure there's a use, but it's not as they portrayed it in the end). Super disappointed, though, to see the piece illustrated with a synthetic image, even after Maiken Scott was talking about not wanting her work stolen to make such systems.

It’s a bit like trying to shovel the walk in the middle of a blizzard, but @alex and I are going to attempt to clear the backlog of Fresh AI Hell in our next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream:

Monday, Dec 9, noon Pacific
https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

This is today!

Ready for some more Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000? We are!

Next up on the live stream:
@brianmerchant joins me and @alex to discuss the business model of “AGI”

Monday, December 2nd, noon Pacific
https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Tomorrow!

Ready for some more Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000? We are!

Next up on the live stream:
@brianmerchant joins me and @alex to discuss the business model of “AGI”

Monday, December 2nd, noon Pacific
https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

No, ChatGPT won't help in the classroom, won't save teachers time, and doesn't represent a set of skills students need to learn.

On OpenAI's latest nonsense:

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/chatgpt-has-no-place-in-the-classroom/

A Guide for Creating and Documenting Language Datasets with Data Statements Schema Version 3 (McMillan-Major & Bender, 2024) is now available!

https://techpolicylab.uw.edu/data-statements/

Data Statements schema version 3 builds on McMillan-Major's 2023 dissertation Language Dataset Documentation Design: Learning from Deaf and Indigenous Communities. The updated guide serves as both a resource for writing data statements and as an aid for planning data collection.

Today!

On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, @alex and I will talk AI hype in ed tech with DAIR’s own Adrienne Williams.

Join us live on Monday Nov 18, noon Pacific:

https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Tomorrow!

On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, @alex and I will talk AI hype in ed tech with DAIR’s own Adrienne Williams.

Join us live on Monday Nov 18, noon Pacific:

https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

"If you are tired of the drumbeat of inevitability that insists English faculty adopt AI into our teaching practices, I am here to tell you that you are allowed to object." Yes! By Melanie Dusseau:

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/11/12/burn-it-down-license-ai-resistance-opinion

On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, @alex and I will talk AI hype in ed tech with DAIR’s own Adrienne Williams.

Join us live on Monday Nov 18, noon Pacific:

https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Mystery AI Hype Theater Episode 44: OpenAI's Ridiculous 'Reasoning'

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/16095327-episode-44-openai-s-ridiculous-reasoning

In which @alex and I bring a little actual science to the party to cut through the hype.

Thx to Christie Taylor for production!

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EMILY M. BENDER: SJayLett adds, "I suspect it emphasizes how the people behind this don't really believe the mind is embodied in any meaningful way," which I think is very true.

Also available as video on PeerTube:
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/gAAnkju7qjfrWjG9NZVy2L

Sunday's thread on why chatbots & LLMs are a bad solution for information access, with replies to the most common types of counterarguments I encountered in my mentions.

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/information-literacy-and-chatbots-as-search/