When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:
@emilymbender
As the old joke goes:
- If you're broke, you do statistics.
- If you have a research grant, you do machine learning.
- If you're a venture capitalist, you do #AI.
And given how the term “AI” has inflated like a third-world currency – what we have no does not merit the term, it's just “generative models” – one may add:
- If you're a Silicon Valley startup, you do #AGI.
@emilymbender Artificial data collection. Intelligence is data collection in English. So is the CIA not a very smart US agency, but the data collection agency for the US. Intelligenz is in German beyond that. Therefore AI is not smart.
@emilymbender don't forget: AI is automated bias and discrimination for usual or unusual reasons.
@emilymbender been looking forward to this thank you for sharing
Preprint available from my publications page:
@emilymbender This looks great. I am eager to read your preprint, but am getting a 404 for this URL:
https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/Bender-AI-2026.pdf
@aarbrk Should be fixed now. Please try again.
@emilymbender All better! Thanks so much.
@emilymbender
Hide, devalue and steal human labour.
@jlperuyero My dude, I am literally posting the encyclopedia entry that I wrote on this topic -- each of those headings is expanded. And yet, you feel the need to correct what I am saying? I'd be astonished at the hubris but then I remember this is Mansplainodon, so yeah.
@emilymbender
I've been following you for some time, and that should be a hint on my according with your work.
But if you take a minimal comment, intending only agreement with your message, as mansplaining, maybe you'll find useful adding some "NO INTERACTING PLEASE" banner to your account.
So sad. So many barriers, trenches, walls and barbed wires set up between real people. No wonder more and more are turning towards IA.
