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As long as you...

(1) host and run it yourself,
(2) it's open source,
(3) it's not trained on art or personal data,
(4) it's not constantly re-trained at extreme energy costs to be "up to date",
(5) it's not advertised as an information source, therapy, search engine, artificial intelligence or anything else it's not,

there's literally no ethical issue in #LLM. It's just a mathematical language model.

I wonder how #hashtags would have been developed differently if they had been invented and popularised by people speaking a #language with strongly marked cases.

If I post 'Sauce mit Pilzen' (German for 'sauce with mushrooms'), and I would like to tag the mushrooms, I can't just go '#Pilzen', because '#Pilzen' is a different hashtag from '#Pilze'. Let alone #Pilzes and #Pilz.

Would we tag things with #SemanticWeb URIs?
#hashtag #tech #compling #computationallinguistics #l10n #i18n #linguistics

Call for Abstracts: Digital Connections 2025

The Doctoral Programme in Digital Humanities at the Universities of Genoa and Turin invites abstracts for the interdisciplinary conference Digital Connections: A Dialogue around Languages, Arts, Cultures, and Technologies, which will be held on June 26-27, 2025, at the University of Genoa.

Deadline: March 10, 2025

#DigitalHumanities #AI #ComputationalLinguistics #CulturalHeritage #EdTech
digitalhumanities.phd.unige.it

digitalhumanities.phd.unige.itDoctoral Symposium 2025 | Digital Humanities PhD

"This study is the first attempt to apply the masked language modeling approach to corrupted inscriptions in Hebrew and Aramaic languages, both using the Hebrew alphabet consisting mostly of consonant symbols. In our experiments, we evaluate several transformer-based models, which are fine-tuned on the Biblical texts and tested on three different percentages of randomly masked parts in the testing corpus."

Niv Fono, Harel Moshayof, Eldar Karol, Itai Assraf, and Mark Last. 2024. Embible: Reconstruction of Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic Texts Using Transformers. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024, pages 846–852, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.

aclanthology.org/2024.findings

#ComputationalLinguistics #Linguistics #Ancient #Hebrew #Aramaic #Language #Languages @linguistics

ACL AnthologyEmbible: Reconstruction of Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic Texts Using TransformersNiv Fono, Harel Moshayof, Eldar Karol, Itai Assraf, Mark Last. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024. 2024.

#PhD student and several #postdoc positions in #computationallinguistics and/or #cognitivescience in Gothenburg, in connection with Chris Howes' ERC Starting grant christinehowes.com/research/di

Doctoral position in Computational Linguistics and/or Cognitive Science (deadline 29th Feb): web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1

Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Linguistics and/or Cognitive Science, one or more (deadline 14th March): web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1

www.christinehowes.comDivCon - www.christinehowes.com

"I think we need transparency about training data. I think we need transparency about energy use. And on top of that, I would love to see accountability. I would love to live in a world where OpenAI is actually responsible for everything that ChatGPT outputs."

- Emily Bender

geekwire.com/2023/ai-chiang-be

Frankly I'd be happy if ANY software was held legally responsible for it's output, but whatever.

GeekWire · Is artificial intelligence all that intelligent? AI influencers worry about wishful thinkingTwo of Time's top 100 influencers on artificial intelligence, Ted Chiang and Emily Bender, explore the potential dark side of generative AI.