Today we’re joined by Emily M. Bender, Professor at the University of Washington, and AI Researcher, Margaret Mitchell.
Emily and Meg, as well as Timnit Gebru and Angelina McMillan-Major, are co-authors on the paper On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜. As most of you undoubtedly know by now, there has been much controv ... Show More
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From Voice Agents to AI Avatars with Alexander Smola - #777
Voice AI has gotten remarkably good, but natural conversation remains a high bar. Small delays, awkward interruptions, or the wrong tone can quickly break the illusion—and adding vision and visual presence only raises the stakes. In this episode, Alex Smola, co-founder and CEO of ... Show More
1h 4m
Sep 1
World Models and the Future of Spatial AI with Justin Johnson - #775
In this episode, Justin Johnson, co-founder of World Labs, joins us to discuss world models and the emerging field of spatial AI. We explore why many researchers see capabilities beyond language as an important frontier for AI, and what it means to build models that can understan ... Show More
1h 6m
Sep 2021
Emily M. Bender — Language Models and Linguistics
In this episode, Emily and Lukas dive into the problems with bigger and bigger language models, the difference between form and meaning, the limits of benchmarks, and why it's important to name the languages we study.Show notes (links to papers and transcript): http://wandb.me/gd ... Show More
1h 12m
Sep 2024
Emily M. Bender on AI Hype
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Emily Bender, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Masters of Science in Computational Linguistics program, and Director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at University of Washington, about her work on artificial intellig ... Show More
1h 6m
Aug 2024
189 - LLMs and Data Science
Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary's Use R! keynote presentation, LLMs and R, and whether R (or any programming language) has a future. Also, a brief preview of Roger's JSM 2024 talk. Show notes: Support us on Patreon Roger Peng Hilary Parker List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Stan ... Show More
1h 7m