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The Dig: AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West

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How to Use Artificial Intelligence to Make a Better World

Linguist Emily Bender has argued a link that there's this huge misunderstanding at work. She says chat GPT's capacity to mimic human communication is evidence that it has some form of human-like intelligence. Lister: Is there some sort of slight of hand here going on in terms of humans feeling this very human tendency, something anthropologists have long documentedto impute human human-like intentionality and agency to things we find meaningful?

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