9 Best Articles in 2020
The Guardian
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
The Guardian
5 min read · 971 saves · Sep 8th · We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace
Vulture
Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
Vulture
~16 min read · 430 saves · Feb 20th · Literary critic Molly Young offers a witty dissection of how today’s businesses – especially start-ups, creative firms and online companies – spawn nonsense corporate slanguage and self-deluded gibberish. Young’s keen ear and sharp tongue will provide relief and amusement to anyone who’s endured a meeting replete with nonsense terminology, such as “parallel-pathing, growth hacking, upleveling” and “blitzscaling.”
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neuropsychologism: this word does not exist
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393 saves · May 13th · 1. psychiatry or mental illness as distinguished from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or other forms of mental disturbance because of the impairment of the normal development of consciousness. 2. a…
MIT Technology Review
OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
MIT Technology Review
340 saves · Jul 20th · “Playing with GPT-3 feels like seeing the future,” Arram Sabeti, a San Francisco–based developer and artist, tweeted last week. That pretty much sums up the response on social media in the last few…
The Pudding
The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature
The Pudding
7 min read · 307 saves · Jul 16th · An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender.
The Cut
If You Can Say It, You Can Feel It
The Cut
8 min read · 306 saves · Feb 3rd · Some scientists believe we have infinite emotions, so long as we can name them.
MIT Technology Review
GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about
MIT Technology Review
7 min read · 302 saves · Aug 22nd · Since OpenAI first described its new AI language-generating system called GPT-3 in May, hundreds of media outlets (including MIT Technology Review) have written about the system and its capabilities.…
MIT Technology Review
This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 300 saves · Sep 4th · Back in July, OpenAI’s latest language model, GPT-3, dazzled with its ability to churn out paragraphs that look as if they could have been written by a human. People started showing off how GPT-3…
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OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin
maraoz.com
4 min read · 278 saves · Jul 18th · Summary: I share my early experiments with OpenAI's new language prediction model (GPT-3) beta. I explain why I think GPT-3 has disruptive potential comparable to that of blockchain technology.…
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We can reduce gender bias in natural-language AI, but it will take a lot more work
VentureBeat
4 min read · 63 saves · Dec 6th · If we know our models learn bias from data, perhaps de-biasing data is the best approach to solving the problem.
Visual Capitalist
The World’s Top 10 Most Spoken Languages
Visual Capitalist
6 min read · 36 saves · Dec 10th · Carmen Ang · While English is the world's most spoken language, it has fewer native speakers than either Mandarin Chinese or Spanish.
The Washington Post
Perspective | 'Latinx' hasn't even caught on among Latinos. It never will.
The Washington Post
27 saves · Dec 18th · The term is an English-language contrivance, not a real gesture at gender inclusivity.
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is there such thing as an extraterrestrial accent? #linguistics #phonetics #sutherlandphys #markkelly
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26 saves · Dec 10th · Jake the Linguist (@jakethelinguist) has created a short video on TikTok with music original sound. | is there such thing as an extraterrestrial accent? #linguistics #phonetics #sutherlandphys…
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Map of quotation marks in European languages
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1 min read · 22 saves · Dec 17th · Jakub Marian · We are all familiar with English quotation marks: "these" (double) and 'these' (single). The American style (and the prevalent style in the UK up until the beginning of the 20th century) prescribes
