Since we published the #StochasticParrots paper two years ago, the issues discussed in it have only become more urgent and salient. Join me, @timnitGebru @meg Angelina McMillan-Major and an esteemed group of panelists for discussion and reflection, March 17 2023.

https://bit.ly/ParrotsDay23

#AI #ML #AIhype #MathyMath #EthicalAI #AIethics #ethNLP

Thank you, @lizweil for digging into the topic of "AI" in our current moment and highlighting how humanist (and linguistic) perspectives can bring as society grapples with important discussions.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

#AIhype #ChatGPT #MathyMath #ethNLP #NLP #linguistics

🦜 🎲 “If a large language model, endowed with hundreds of billions of parameters and trained on a very large dataset, can manipulate linguistic form well enough to cheat its way through tests meant to require language understanding, have we learned anything of value about how to build machine language understanding or have we been led down the garden path?” On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922 #NLP #ethNLP #GPT3

That aside, it's a really good piece (and definitely not par for the course for NYT tech coverage). It shows the value of the work done by the FATE team at Micorosft, as well as how problematic it is that their ability to influence corporate decision making is limited.

#AIethics #ethNLP

Update! I'm really happy to see that the shared task has been removed from the workshop (though "shared tasks papers" is still listed on their web page) and the list of topics of interest has changed.

Workshop URL: https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23

Original thread: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/109908808556715839

#NLP #ethNLP #AIEthics #SIGIR2023

This workshop is associated with SIGIR. Has SIGIR somehow missed the memo about ethics review?

#SIGIR2023 #AIethics #NLP #ethNLP

It's 2023. "Gosh, we didn't realize how people would misuse this" just isn't believable anymore.

Bare minimum, with any new tech:
1) How would a stalker use this?
2) What will 4chan do with this?

And don't release, not even as alpha or beta, before mitigating those risks.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579289/ai-voice-clone-deepfake-abuse-4chan-elevenlabs

#AIethics #ethNLP

This framing is so gross. To see (human!) generated (ahem: English) text to be a "vital resource" you have to be deeply committed to the project of building AI models and in this particular way.

Link to original tweet:
https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1605756428941246466

Link to paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.04325.pdf

#NLP #ethNLP #sustainability

Attention #AI Safety ppl : this is how you win hearts and minds of the #AIEthics ppl 😄

https://twitter.com/dmitrigallow/status/1603611058639237121
#AIEthicsTwitter #ethnlp #nlproc

RT @emilymbender@twitter.com

Apropos of the complete lack of transparency about #ChatGPT 's training data, I'd like to resurface what Batya Friedman and I wrote in 2018 in the original Data Statements paper:

Source https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1041/

#NLProc #ethNLP #AIethics

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1600657642518876160

Apropos of the complete lack of transparency about #ChatGPT 's training data, I'd like to resurface what Batya Friedman and I wrote in 2018 in the original Data Statements paper:

Source https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1041/

#NLProc #NLP #ethNLP #AIethics

@evanmiltenburg @kfort shall we try to make #ethnlp a tag here, too, or do we want to move away from "ethics" as the name?

RT @emilymbender@twitter.com

My @twimlai@twitter.com episode's premiere is now complete, but you can catch the episode anytime here:
https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-376-is-linguistics-missing-from-nlp-research-w-emily-m-bender/

Thanks again @samcharrington@twitter.com!

#nlproc #linguistics #ethnlp #catsoflinguists

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1262518672687415296