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Chatbots

Professor of computational linguistics Emily M Bender explains how chatbots work, how they've become so fluent and why we should be careful with the terminology we use about them.

Michael is joined by Emily M Bender, Professor of computational linguistics at the University of Washington and co-author of the infamous paper 鈥極n the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots鈥.

Cutting through the recent hype, she explains how chatbots do what they do, how they have become so fluent and why she thinks we should be careful with the terminology we employ when talking about them.

Presented by Michael Rosen and produced for 大象传媒 Audio in Bristol by Ellie Richold.

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Mon 1 May 2023 23:00

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