AI sceptic Emily Bender: 'The emperor has no clothes'

4 oppodeldoc 2 6/20/2025, 2:46:41 PM ft.com ↗

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alganet · 7h ago
Companies are swiftly moving from an "intelligence" narrative to an "augmentation" narrative (I think it's also doomed).

I think the linguists already won, but the AI tale is so tall it hasn't had the time to hit the ground yet.

LLMs will probably find some use though.

sherdil2022 · 8h ago
https://archive.ph/H4aZY

Worth reading.

Cuts through and gets to the reason for the AI hype and what AI is actually all about (automation in a shiny wrapper and is little more than a “stochastic parrot”, a term that she coined in a 2021 paper).