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Yes, neural nets are comically incompetent at generating language. How many examples do you have to see before you realize that they are just as incompetent in areas that are no laughing matter, and we probably shouldn't be using them in those areas?

Recently I've started hearing my wife say things like "I've got a zoo meeting at 6:30 tonight." I think it's a frequency effect in real time, because she's had a lot more meetings over the past three years than I have!

I really want everyone to pivot back from video. I fucking hate video. Do not ever make me watch a video just to obtain information. Making me watch a video instead of giving me text I can read is an act of violence against me specifically. When will it end.

Awful pics, excellent point!

Joies de la langue : l'#ambiguïté.

Google Meets option to turn on all cameras

Weird story in this 2016 Jacques Beauchamp episode: In 1927, 78 kids were killed in a fire in a movie theater in a suburb of Montreal. Blocked exits, bad directions. So what did the government do? Ban children under 16 from theaters. 😒 Jessie Singer ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere…

The first “American Chinese food” restaurant opens in Beijing. For Chinese like me who’ve only seen the oyster pail in TV series, the food is intriguing. For Americans in China, such Chinese takeaway may come with a sense of nostalgia. American in China

The Onion and GMG Unions are saddened to report that our colleagues at Gizmodo Español, a site that once housed original, quality Spanish-language reporting, have been replaced en masse by an AI translation service.

Angus/Andrea Grieve-Smith (Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith) reflects on the recent survey on #transgender identity done by the Washington Post & the Kaiser Family Foundation: transblog.grieve-smith.com/2023/12/31/has…

Angus/Andrea Grieve-Smith (Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith) questions the expression 'living as a woman' as used in common parlance as well as in the 2023 Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation survey on #transgender identity & experience: transblog.grieve-smith.com/2024/01/08/wha…

Everybody in the earthquake zone filed a felt report, right? tenor.com/bCZiF.gif

Looks like the New York City Office of Emergency Management ran their flood warning script through a machine translation system, then piped the "Spanish" output through an English speech synthesizer and broadcast it through their drones! #linguistics #MachineTranslation #NLProc

A professor is documenting category clashes (can't read the name from the presentation, sorry!). Lynne Murphy #ciep2024

#CategoryFight of the day, courtesy of Lynne Murphy and her talk about category fights yesterday! (I'm a pedant AND an expert! Did you know that people can belong to multiple overlapping categories?)

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