Tag: machine-learning

• Large Language Models, Models of Language, and the Interview Society

  In July 2024, I visited Amsterdam to speak on a conference panel titled “LLMs and the Language Sciences.” Here’s an adapted version of the talk: Six months ago, I moved to San Francisco to study the Bay Area’s AI communities. I arrived with clear ideas about what my interlocutors would be doing and what I…

• AnthropoloGPT: Experimenting with RAG for teaching anthropology

  

  Teaching with AI When I tell people (especially academics) that I research AI, they often ask about classroom uses of AI. The questions are anxious ones. Will students lose access to reliable information? Will they forget how to write? Can teachers retain control over pedagogy? Will teaching jobs disappear? When it comes to the present…

• Machine Learning and Common Sense

  As we interact with new kinds of technical systems, knowledge we had always taken for granted may no longer go without saying. In other words, new kinds of knowledge might come to be called common sense. As a result, trying to teach common sense to machines before they enter the world will inevitably fall short.