Language, Logic and Information

Agenda

11 March 2021
13:30 - 15:00
Online (Teams)

NLP Reading Group on Thursday 11/03: On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots

The next Reading Group will be hosted by Meaghan Fowlie with the following paper:

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? ? (FAccT-21)
Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Shmargaret Shmitchell
http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/Stochastic_Parrots.pdf

Since the beginning of December, the paper has featured in the media on multiple occasions (e.g. MIT TechRev).
There are also many long Twitter threads about the paper and the story around it.
The RG participants might also find this critical note (by Yoav Goldberg) interesting.