minimalparts, These last two posts by @emilymbender highlight how #AI #hype has conquered Higher Ed: https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/, and I couldn’t agree more.
I find it properly disconcerting that many academics fell for the hype when clearly, it is purely the result of a very good lobbying effort on the part of Big Tech. So just to get things straight, here’s my personal experience of what happened in the field of Natural Language Processing (#NLP), starting back in 2017 (references at the end of the thread) 1/6