Machine Predictions and Synthetic Text: A Roundtable on Large Language Models in the Humanities Join us on October 26 at 4:30 pm Eastern on Zoom. All are welcome! Register <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb 379&id=5ea4dcdfdb&e=477ba78033> here. Since it was published in March 2021, " <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb 379&id=62f0a0984a&e=477ba78033> On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" has sparked impassioned conversations on the unintended consequences and potential harms of prominent natural language processing (NLP) projects. While this groundbreaking paper has been influential in computer and data science-prompting reflection on the dangers of relying on poorly conceptualized and curated data-it is only beginning to be discussed by humanities scholars who use NLP methods in their research. For this roundtable, two co-authors of "Stochastic Parrots" will speak with three leading digital humanities scholars about the implications of the article for humanities research employing NLP methods. Together, they will discuss how the authors' attention to process (data gathering, documentation, standards) and ethics in AI can be turned to humanists creating data and models for the study of literature, history, and culture. Panelists * <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb 379&id=eeed6fcdd7&e=477ba78033> Angelina McMillan-Major (University of Washington, Computational Linguistics) * <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb 379&id=06f51e5a08&e=477ba78033> Gimena del Rio Riande (University of Buenos Aires, Romance Philology) * <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb 379&id=561f9992ac&e=477ba78033> Lauren Klein (Emory University, English and Quantitative Theory & Methods) * <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb 379&id=fe44cf7160&e=477ba78033> Margaret Mitchell (CEO & Research Scientist, Ethical AI LLC) * <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb 379&id=c8a7a5c88d&e=477ba78033> Ted Underwood (University of Illinois, Information Sciences) Moderator * <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb 379&id=1503ecd64f&e=477ba78033> Toma Tasovac (DARIAH-EU) This event is part of the <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb 379&id=a7fa8b45cc&e=477ba78033> New Languages for NLP project, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is co-sponsored by the <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb 379&id=2c6e71db2c&e=477ba78033> Center for Statistics and Machine Learning at Princeton and <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb 379&id=990b0d6c85&e=477ba78033> DARIAH-EU. Copyright C 2021 Center for Digital Humanities, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: Center for Digital Humanities Firestone Library, Floor B Princeton University Princeton, Nj 08540 <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/vcard?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb379&id =3f268a40cb> Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/profile?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb379& id=3f268a40cb&e=477ba78033&c=947498457e> update your preferences or <https://princeton.us16.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb 379&id=3f268a40cb&e=477ba78033&c=947498457e> unsubscribe from this list. <http://www.mailchimp.com/email-referral/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm _medium=email&utm_campaign=referral_marketing&aid=a77a39541c9fc9c8b625cb379& afl=1> -- Grant Wythoff, PhD (he/him) Center for Digital Humanities Princeton University https://wythoff.net
