#8 Ethics and the Evolution of NLP
Alex Flückiger
Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences
University of Lucerne
28 April 2022
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💡 What is going on behind the scene?
King = 1, Queen = 2, Man = 3, Woman = 4
NLP is great. I love NLP.
I understand NLP.
NLP, NLP, NLP.
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for
lunch.”You shall know a word by the company it keeps!
Firth (1957)
King – Man + Woman = Queen
France / Paris = Switzerland / Bern
bank
)💥 embeddings are the cornerstone of modern NLP
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becomes a doctor.»
🤓 train with gradient descent, a series of small steps taken to minimize an error function
„This sentence
contains 32 characters.“
„Dieser Satz enthält 32
Buchstaben.“
Differences in the etymological roots of the terms data and capta make the distinction between constructivist and realist approaches clear. Capta is “taken” actively while data is assumed to be a “given” able to be recorded and observed.
Humanistic inquiry acknowledges the situated, partial, and constitutive character of knowledge production, the recognition that knowledge is constructed, taken, not simply given as a natural representation of pre-existing fact.
Drucker (2011)
Raw data is an oxymoron.
Gitelman (2013)
Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair,
ask how it shifts power.Kalluri (2020)
Don’t be a fool. Be wise, think twice.