66: ChatGPT Wrote This Episode (with Daan van Esch)

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12/13/22 • 86 min

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Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

ChatGPT has just landed. It can generate text that seems fluid, plausible, and (surprisingly) not total nonsense. It's got a lot of people wondering what's left for humans — and for the field of Natural Language Processing. Here to help us is computational linguist Daan van Esch.

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67: Words of the Week of the Year 2022 (live with friends)

We're counting down our Words of the Year, as voted by you! We're joined by our friends and patrons, and they've brought us some words we missed. And we'll go through all the Words of the Year from dictionaries and language lovers, English and not.

Thanks to all our friends who joined us for this show, and to all our great patrons who have supported our work.

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