Damn your experience of the pandemic was very different than mine

that's a fantastic way to teach the predictability point. I think I'll borrow this in the future

I can only conclude that the site contains both the Kennedy Center and the Donald J. Trump.

ok if I was moderating a talk and needed these and someone pulled out LAMINATED cards to rescue me I would be amazed

Breaking: I’m still confused by the same construction I’ve been researching for 10 years

does your MA program have funding available for students? (TAships, etc?)

Oh! Alex Dunlap is working on something similar - they should connect

Which will work until students know to prompt the LLM to make occasional typos

I’m currently interpreting typos in student papers as a great sign of non-LLM-generated work

wait I’ve been on your site many times! I’ve toyed with teaching a summer class for high schoolers and was using your site extensively to ponder a curriculum

What does it take to get something like linguistics into English curricula? Convincing policy people? Or just local teachers?

Amazing!! I know there’s been more movement in that direction. And perhaps also google you next time before I respond 😆

completely agree. I don’t really know what it would take to get linguistics into high school curricula but I think a lot of high school language courses would be more interesting and useful if we did

I find that its answers seem more plausible the less I know about the topic. You just have to Dunning-Kruger harder, Nicole

not an expert on the topic, but my understanding of the term is that it's a pretty large tent including lots of folks with different kinds of exposure. I don't know if the term would specifically apply to you as people use it, but I'm guessing the research findings would nonetheless be relevant

heritage speakers likewise come to mind for me. not sure what it means to "count" as a heritage speaker, but whether or not you count, the research would surely be relevant. Lots of heritage speakers have passive/receptive knowledge of a language without being speakers

You going to publish the results of this? I’m very curious to see what you learn. And/or I could participate if you were still looking for instructors

Sure, not saying we NEED LLMs for that. But it is convenient and interactive and the fact that it’s just a bullshit machine doesn’t undermine the use case. But don’t worry, I’m on the same page with you for LLMs generally, at least so far (my students listened to you on a podcast for class on Wed!)

the one use case that I've actually found useful is maintaining a non-native second language that has been atrophying. I wouldn't recommend it for LEARNING, but it's ok to practice recognizing sequences of word forms and constructing sequences of word forms in fake conversation

Spent an intro to linguistics class talking with students about this today. They are kind of magical but the fact that they are completely untethered to facts and reality makes them a risky prospect when they sound so believable otherwise

I don’t get why this is confusing for people. Some people are explicitly pro-segregationist but most are not. I guess the rest are just unable to cope with the cognitive dissonance of liking America but also accepting that there isn’t actually liberty and justice for all

Bc LLMs are famous for being factually accurate

It’s the time. There’s just none of it available, anymore

This is my current Open Access dilemma. Though not that much of a dilemma bc a for profit would just sell it to the woodchipper anyway

If we weren’t going to use it to weather Covid, we’re definitely not gonna use it for this

Hoping the same for mine

Commit to give talks places. Collaborate with peers who get annoyed if I don’t do shit. (Also recipes for anxiety and overcommitment, of course.)

This was our topic here in intro ling yesterday - would have loved to have a level-appropriate reading to assign to them. If you want to tests drafts on an intro ling audience let me know

it's like he views the entire government as a reality tv show

I had an Intro Ling day slated for language policy, looks like we can specifically consider our own national policy now