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Can Computers Really Talk? Or Are They Faking It?
Season 1
Episode 3
New advancements in technology are making it harder than ever to tell the difference between a computer and a human speaker... but what's going on under the hood? Is it really "language," or just a digital illusion? Check out GPT-3 in action at AI Dungeon: https://play.aidungeon.io/
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Here are the deep misconceptions about African-American English (AAE).

6:59
We'll have to figure out what the word "word" really means...

8:00
What can we learn about our relationship to monsters?

5:51
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12:22
It's one of the most contentious debates in linguistics!

7:05
The ways we use negation in language can be pretty complex, even AI can’t seem to make sense of it.

8:36
Join us as we try to figure out how our body parts got their names.