9 Best Articles in 2021
The Guardian
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
The Guardian
5 min read · 2020-09-08 · 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
OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
OpenAI
20+ min read · Jan 5th · We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
Vulture
Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
Vulture
~16 min read · 2020-02-20 · 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.”
thisworddoesnotexist.com
neuropsychologism: this word does not exist
thisworddoesnotexist.com
1 min read · 2020-05-13 · 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
1 min read · 2020-07-20 · “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
8 min read · 2020-07-16 · 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
9 min read · 2020-02-03 · 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
8 min read · 2020-08-22 · 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
4 min read · 2020-09-04 · 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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The New Yorker
The Rise of Therapy-Speak
The New Yorker
7 min read · Mar 26th · How a language got off the couch and into the world.
BBC News (World)
The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use
BBC News (World)
6 min read · Apr 6th · Some of our most common, ingrained expressions have damaging effects on millions of people – and many of us don't know we're hurting others when we speak.
The Verge
OpenAI’s text-generating system GPT-3 is now spewing out 4.5 billion words a day
The Verge
2 min read · Mar 29th · Text-generation is the next big thing in AI.
The Atlantic
Words Have Lost Their Common Meaning
The Atlantic
5 min read · Mar 31st · The word "racism," among others, has become maddeningly confusing in current usage.
BBC Future
The languages that defy auto-translate
BBC Future
9 min read · Mar 24th · There are 7,000 languages in the world, 4,000 of which are written, but only 100 can be translated with automated tools such as Google Translate. Is it possible to crack the others?
AlgorithmWatch
Automated translation is hopelessly sexist, but don’t blame the algorithm or the training data
AlgorithmWatch
5 min read · Apr 1st · Automated translation services tend to erase women or reduce them to stereotypes. Simply tweaking the training data or the models is not enough to make translations fair.
Electric Literature
Literary Translations and Crossword Puzzles Are More Similar Than You Think
Electric Literature
10 min read · Mar 30th · My work as a translator and my hobby as a puzzle-maker share an understanding of language as a space for play
damemagazine.com
America Is Literally Warring Over Words
damemagazine.com
~11 min read · Mar 30th · There are four words that have been used again and again throughout American history—up through the Trump era—to justify morally dubious acts and frame…
The New York Times
‘Master,’ ‘Slave’ and the Fight Over Offensive Terms in Computing
The New York Times
6 min read · Apr 13th · Nearly a year after the Internet Engineering Task Force took up a plan to replace words that could be considered racist, the debate is still raging.
Atlas Obscura
The Lost Language of Easter Island
Atlas Obscura
4 min read · Mar 25th · A wooden fish could help linguists learn more about the writing system known as rongorongo.
