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LING 1800: Topics in Linguistics: Machines that Speak: How AI is Reshaping our Language and Society

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This course provides an overview of the ways Artificial Intelligence technologies (primarily large language models) are reshaping language and society. We will be reading scholarly work that is both supportive of and critical towards language technologies, particularly in relation to their influence and impact on the social world.

Students will leave the course with knowledge across three main themes:

  1. how AI and large language models are similar and different from human cognition;
  2. problems posed to the AI enterprise by sociocultural research on language;Ìý
  3. and ethics and impact of AI technologies on groups of people and the environment.

This course has no prerequisites.

T/TH 11 am - 12:15 pm

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