Thank you John Brewton, Jen Benford, Travis Sparks, Arturo E. Hernandez, Ousmane Diallo, Jennifer Houle, Ellen Burns, PhD, and many others for tuning into my live video with The Strategic Linguist.
In this live, Rebecca Wicker (The Strategic Linguist) and I discuss what linguistics actually is, how it relates to AI, and why the conversation about large language models has been dominated by engineers and prompt enthusiasts rather than the people who study language for a living. We explore why ‘language model’ is a misnomer if linguists are absent from the room, and what happens when we treat language as a problem to be optimised rather than a human system to be understood.
I would really recommend subscribing to The Strategic Linguist. Rebecca is doing important work in bringing linguistic expertise into AI discourse.
Go Slow,
Sam
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