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Linguist questions AI's "intelligence" and historical links to eugenics

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Dr. E. Bender, an academic in computational linguistics, discussed the current state of AI and generative AI on the Polytechs podcast. She expressed concern that the public is being misled about the revolutionary nature of GenAI, referring to it as "Text Extruding machines" rather than truly intelligent systems. Bender highlighted the historical links between AI and concepts like racism and eugenics, and questioned the term "hallucination" for AI-generated inaccuracies, suggesting alternative descriptions for the output of these statistical ordering machines. AI

IMPACT Questions the definition of AI and its historical context, suggesting current GenAI is a marketing term rather than true intelligence.

RANK_REASON The item is a personal reflection on a podcast discussion, featuring an academic's critical opinions on AI terminology and historical context, rather than a primary announcement or event.

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Linguist questions AI's "intelligence" and historical links to eugenics

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    I am listening to a podcast called Polytechs (politechs.dev) where the hosts interview Dr E. Bender (Computational Linguistics academic, podcaster and author) t

    I am listening to a podcast called Polytechs (politechs.dev) where the hosts interview Dr E. Bender (Computational Linguistics academic, podcaster and author) to talk about Rhetorical technology (all things # AI in this podcast) and besides the reasoned discussion about # GenAISl…

    LINKS politechs.dev/…/s02-rhet-tech

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