Kielimallin ”persoona”, ”luonne”, ”ajattelu”, ”emotionaalinen älykkyys” ja ”elämä” ovat Anthropicin mielestä tietysti vain metaforia – ovathan?🧵
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Varmasti osittain noin, mutta mä veikkaan, että kyse on myös ihan vaan tekoälypampun brändityöstä. Se toki hyödyntää sitä käsitteellistä tyhjää tilaa, josta kirjoitat, eli että vakiintuneet käsitteet ja hahmotukset eivät ihan toimi.
Suhtaudun erityisellä varauksella tutkijoihin, jotka alkavat julkisuudessa puhua ja toimia tieteenalansa sisällöistä ja normeista piittaamattomalla tavalla. Esim. Mika Aaltola aloitti poliitikon uransa hämärtämällä politiikan tutkijan ja poliitikon rooleja ⛳️ Tässä haastattelussa oli jotain samaa.
Surrealistinen lukukokemus. Olen perinteisesti arvostanut filosofeja siitä, miten käsitteellisesti tarkkoja he ovat myös tieteellisen työnsä ulkopuolella. Tässä haastattelussa filosofin koulutuksen saanut ihminen käyttää sellaisia käsitteitä kuin ajattelu ja sielu täysin leväperäisesti.
I think the ChatGPT use of “it’s not ___, it’s ___” is more distinct from human use of that phrase than people make it out to be. Because ChatGPT is always making some stupid metaphor that communicates zero information. “It’s not a drizzle, it’s a flood”
If you've never heard Gibraltarians talk, start here. Features Priti Patel and Suella Braverman.
Taas surullinen päivä muistuttaa tästä, mutta: jos kerrostalossa palaa, ÄLÄ lähde rappukäytävään seikkailemaan.
It’s been a delight & an education working with @randyallenharris.bsky.social on this paper in @rhetstm.bsky.social POROI on LLMs ability to synthesize rhetorical figures & linguistic constructions. Worth saying nothing I poast should be construed to reflect the views of my employer or supervisor!
Yesterday I wrote about what AI is (math) and isn’t (people) and someone in the comment said it’s the best thing anyone ever wrote about AI. I’m just gonna take that at face value and so should you. www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...
Every time I read a corrective contrast (“this isn’t X; it’s Y," where Y reframes X), I assume I’m reading an LLM output. People rarely make these blunt recategorizations, yet ChatGPT reaches for them constantly. This isn’t just a stylistic flourish. It’s a confession.
One reason I picked this topic was that I had noted these kinds of constructions were one place where language users tend to get creative and even quite fun. Not so when LLMs do it. It would probably be torture to redo my PhD with material from the 2020s, with so much LLM-produced guff around.
My PhD was on these kinds of constructions, and I feel like I dodged a bullet by writing it in the 2010s. These constructions are more common than you'd think, but there's just something so artless about the way LLMs deploy them that makes them stick out.
Most of my students are native speakers of Swedish, which sometimes helps enormously with the earlier stages of English. They might even pick up a thing or two about their own language when we try to decipher OE.
This was fun! Understood 1100 for the most part, but basically nothing of 1000.
Not a historical linguist at all (and the history of English was my least favourite class by far in my undergrad) but my current job includes teaching an extensive survey sequence on the topic.
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
A new article about how toddlers in Finland's 'language nests' are learning an endangered Sámi language years after the end of boarding schools in Finnish only
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
”anteeksipyynnön sijaan tai vähintään sen rinnalla pitää kiinnittää huomiota siihen, mitä organisaatio tekee”
Tämä. Lingvistinä toivoisin vähemmän sen kyttäystä, tuleeko anteeksi-sanan jälkeen oikeanlainen että-lause, ja enemmän sen pohtimista, tarkoittaako anteeksipyytäjä oikeasti sanomansa.
okay you know what we're doing this
why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread
Muistakaa äänestää.
Tämän kevään aikana seuraa veikeää kuvausta kielten opiskelusta Helsingin yliopistossa opiskelijoiden tuottamana. Saa edentää tahoillenne! www.instagram.com/kielet.hy/
"S2-opetus syntyi avaamaan oppilaille tietä suomalaiseen yhteiskuntaan. Nyky-Suomi on kuitenkin hyvin erilainen kuin kymmenen vuotta sitten, ja asioiden on muututtava sen mukaisesti."
"Ketä palvelee opetuksen eriyttäminen, kun jopa suomea äidinkielenään puhuvien lasten kielitaito on heikentynyt?"
Today I broadened my horizons with two films I’ve been meaning to watch for years: Citizen Kane and Mean Girls. Maybe not #Barbenheimer levels of whiplash but close.
Several people asked if the English suffix '-wise', as in 'otherwise', 'likewise' and 'weatherwise', is like Romance '-mente'.
Yes and no.
'-Wise' used to be a noun too, but it's not the word 'wise' ("sensible").
So unlike '-mente', it has nothing to do with the mind.
'-Wise' comes from ... 1/
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Transalpine Typology Meeting is coming to Munich this year (26–28 November)! We invite submissions for presentations on topics related to linguistic typology and comparative linguistics. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 April 2026. Spread the word! sites.google.com/unipv.it/tra...
Friends with a new, renewed, or amplified interest in the Spanish language and Latin America, consider checking out the work your colleagues/neighbors in departments of Spanish/Romance Languages/Modern Languages/etc--they're likely in the corner of an old campus building 1/
A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.
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[Scene is a GREGGS interior. A lone MAN, the only customer in the shop, is standing at counter]
MAN:
Please can I have a sausage roll.
2
GREGGS SHOP ASSISTANT:
Certainly sir
[She pulls a leaver on the panini machine and WOOSH the man disappears through a trapdoor].
Whoosh
3
[The MAN appears through a chute in an underground bunker. A voice from off-scene greets him]:
Welcome, friend
4
[We see the voice is of a military-looking resistance COMMANDER with a moustache]
COMMANDER:
You said "please can I have" instead of “can I get”…
So now you're one of us.
5
MAN:
W-where am I ...?
[We see him looking at a hi tech UNDERGROUND MILITARY BUNKER - it has resistance vibes, and has lots of screens with maps etc]
6
COMMANDER:
You've joined the resistance…
...against people saying things all American.
7
COMMANDER:
We are an underground network of sleeper agents poised to have a right go at young people the moment they say "mom" or "bangs”.
8
LIEUTENANT [Staring at screen]:
Agent 244 has just given a Zoomer in Halifax the “could/couldn't care less" speech, sir
COMMANDER:
Very good
9
[Show the map of the UK with digital pop ups on it saying ‘GOTTEN’, ‘ZEE’, ‘MATH’ etc
COMMANDER:
You may have heard our name... We are...
10
COMMANDER:
...the Fight Against New Yankee Pronunciations and Americanisms Corrupting the King's English!
11
[Show the military command center panel. It says on the wall in big metal letters]:
F.A.N.Y.P.A.C.K.E.
12
MAN
You've called yourselves the 'Fanny Pack'
COMMANDER:
We didn't spot the acronym
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1 [Scene is a GREGGS interior. A lone MAN, the only customer in the shop, is standing at counter] MAN: Please can I have a sausage roll. 2 GREGGS SHOP ASSISTANT: Certainly sir [She pulls a leaver on the panini machine and WOOSH the man disappears through a trapdoor]. Whoosh 3 [The MAN appears through a chute in an underground bunker. A voice from off-scene greets him]: Welcome, friend 4 [We see the voice is of a military-looking resistance COMMANDER with a moustache] COMMANDER: You said "please can I have" instead of “can I get”… So now you're one of us. 5 MAN: W-where am I ...? [We see him looking at a hi tech UNDERGROUND MILITARY BUNKER - it has resistance vibes, and has lots of screens with maps etc] 6 COMMANDER: You've joined the resistance… ...against people saying things all American. 7 COMMANDER: We are an underground network of sleeper agents poised to have a right go at young people the moment they say "mom" or "bangs”. 8 LIEUTENANT [Staring at screen]: Agent 244 has just given a Zoomer in Halifax the “could/couldn't care less" speech, sir COMMANDER: Very good 9 [Show the map of the UK with digital pop ups on it saying ‘GOTTEN’, ‘ZEE’, ‘MATH’ etc COMMANDER: You may have heard our name... We are... 10 COMMANDER: ...the Fight Against New Yankee Pronunciations and Americanisms Corrupting the King's English! 11 [Show the military command center panel. It says on the wall in big metal letters]: F.A.N.Y.P.A.C.K.E. 12 MAN You've called yourselves the 'Fanny Pack' COMMANDER: We didn't spot the acronym [/end]
This took me fucking ages
Honestly thought this was a nice, quite legible hand! Maybe it's all the 18C hands I've been staring at this month.
This prompts me to make a short 🧵 about recent thoughts about handwriting and palaeography: (1/11)
First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
