Stochastic Parrots Day

The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)

A virtual event to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the paper, On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?

Since the publication of <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3442188.3445922" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?🦜</a> two years ago, many of the harms the paper has warned about and more, have unfortunately occurred. From <a href="https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">exploited workers filtering hateful content</a>, to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">an engineer claiming that chatbots are sentient</a>, the harms are only accelerating. Join the co-authors of the paper and various guests to reflect on what has happened in the last two years, what the large language model landscape currently look like, and where we are headed vs where we should be headed.

Agenda

Panelists: Angelina McMillan-Major, Margaret Mitchell, Emily M. Bender. Moderator: Margaret Mitchell

Retrospective: A Conversation with the Authors

Panelists: Anonymous Data Worker, Milagros Miceli, Safiya Noble. Moderator: Timnit Gebru

On Worker Exploitation, Data Theft, and the Centralization of Power

Panelists: Asmelash Teka, Mark Riedl, Belzie Mont-Louis. Moderator: Emily M. Bender

AI Hype vs. Reality

Panelists: Sarah Andrew, Steven Zapata, Nanjala Nyabola. Moderator: Angelina McMillan-Major

What's Next? A Call to Action

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