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

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.

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).