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es academics outside computer science urgently need to discuss their role on the dangers of stochastic parrots deserves credit for starting the discussion especially since publication required tenacity and courage i am honored to be part of an event exploring its significance for the humanities the argument that bender et al advance has two parts first that large language models pose social risks and second that they will turn out to be misdirected research effort anyway since they pretend to perform natural language understanding but do not have access to meaning 615 i agree that the trajectory of recent research is dangerous but to understand the risks language models pose i think we will need to understand how they produce meaning the premise that they simply do not have access to meaning tends to prevent us from grasping the models social role i hope humanists can help here by offering a wider range of ways to think about the work language does it is true that language models don t yet represent their own purposes or an interlocutor s state of mind these are important aspects of language and for stochastic parrots they are the whole story the article defines meaning as meaning conveyed between individuals and grounded in communicative intent 616 but in historical disciplines it is far from obvious that all meaning boils down to intentional communication between individuals historians often use meaning to describe something more collective because the meaning of a literary work for example is not circumscribed by intent it is common for debates about the meaning of a text to depend more on connections to books published a century earlier or later than on reconstructing the author s conscious plan 4 i understand why researchers in a field named artificial intelligence would associate meaning with mental activity and see writing as a dubious proxy for it but historical disciplines rarely have access to minds or even living subjects we work mostly with texts and other traces for this reason i m not troubled by the part of stochastic parrots that warns about the human tendency to attribute meaning to text even when the text is not grounded in communicative intent 618 616 historians are already in the habit of finding meaning in genres nursery rhymes folktale motifs ruins political trends and other patterns that never had a single author with a clear purpose 5 if we could only find meaning in intentional communication we wouldn t find much meaning in the past at all so not all historical researchers will be scandalized when we hear that a model is merely stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data 617 that s often what we do too and we could use help a willingness to find meaning in collective patterns may be especially necessary for disciplines that study the past but this flexibility is not limited to scholars the writers and artists who borrow language models for creative work likewise appreciate that their instructions to the model acquire meaning from a training corpus the phrase unreal engine for instance encourages clip to select pictures with a consistent cartoonified style but this has nothing to do with the dictionary definition of unreal it s just a helpful side effect of the fact that many pictures are captioned with the name of the game engine that produced them in short i think people who use neural models of language typically use them for a different purpose than stochastic parrots assumes the immediate value of these models is often not to mimic individual language understanding but to represent specific cultural practices like styles or expository templates so they can be studied and creatively remixed this may be disappointing for disciplines that aspire to model general intelligence but for historians and artists cultural specificity is not disappointing intelligence only starts to interest us after it mixes with time to become a biased limited pattern of collective life models of culture are exactly what we need while i m skeptical that language models are devoid of meaning i do share other concerns in stochastic parrots for instance i agree that researchers will need a way to understand the subset of texts that shape a model s response to a given prompt culture is historically specific so models will never be free of omission and bias but by the same token we need to know which practices they represent if companies want to offer language models as a service to the public say in web search they will need to do even more than know what the models represent somehow a single model will need to produce a picture of the world that is acceptable to a wide range of audiences without amplifying harmful biases or filtering out minority discourses bender et al 614 that s a delicate balancing act historians don t have to compress their material as severely since history is notoriously a story of conflict and our sources were interested participants few people expect historians to represent all aspects of the past with one correctly balanced model on the contrary historical inquiry is usually about comparing perspectives machine learning is not the only way to do this but it can help for instance researchers can measure differences of perspective by training multiple models on different publication venues or slices of the timeline 6 when research is organized by this sort of comparative purpose the biases in data are not usually a reason to refrain from modeling but a reason to create more corpora and train models that reflect a wider range of biases on the other hand training a variety of models becomes challenging when each job requires thousands of gpus tech companies might have the resources to train many models at that scale but will universities there are several ways around this impasse one is to develop lighter weight models 7 another is to train a single model that can explicitly distinguish multiple perspectives at present researchers create this flexibility in a rough and ready way by fine tuning bert on different samples a more principled approach might design models to recognize the social structure in their original training data one recent paper associates each text with a date stamp for instance to train models that respond differently to questions about different years 8 similar approaches might produce models explicitly conditioned on variables like venue or nationality models that could associate each statement or prediction they make with a social vantage point if neural language models are to play a constructive role in research universities will also need alternatives to material dependence on tech giants in 2020 it seemed that only the largest corporations could deploy enough silicon to move this field forward in october 2021 things are starting to look less dire coalitions like eleutherai are reverse engineering language models 9 smaller corporations like huggingface are helping to cover underrepresented languages nsf is proposing new computing resources 10 the danger of oligopoly is by no means behind us but we can at least begin to see how scholars might train models that represent a wider range of perspectives of course scholars are not the only people who matter what about the broader risks of language modeling outside universities i agree with the authors of stochastic parrots that neural language models are dangerous but i am not sure that critical discourse has alerted us to the most important dangers yet critics often prefer to say that these models are dangerous only because they don t work and are devoid of meaning that may seem to be the strongest rhetorical position since it concedes nothing to the models but i suspect this hard line also prevents critics from envisioning what the models might be good for and how they re likely to be mis used consider the surprising art scene that sprang up when clip was released openai still hasn t released the dall e model that translates clip s embeddings of text into images 11 but that didn t stop graduate students and interested amateurs from duct taping clip to various generative image models and using the contraption to explore visual culture in dizzying ways the angel of air unreal engine vqgan clip aran komatsukaki may 31 2021 will the emergence of this subculture make any sense if we assume that clip is just a failed attempt to reproduce individual language use in practice the people tinkering with clip don t expect it to respond like a human reader more to the point they don t want it to they re fascinated because clip uses language differently than a human individual would mashing together the senses and overtones of words and refracting them into the potential space of internet images like a new kind of synesthesia 12 the pictures produced are fascinating but at least for now too glitchy to impress most people as art they re better understood as postcards from an unmapped latent space 13 the point of a postcard after all is not to be itself impressive but to evoke features of a larger region that looks fun to explore here the region is a particular visual culture artists use clip to find combinations of themes and styles that could have occurred within it although they never quite did the clockwork angel of air trending on artstation diffusion clip rivershavewings katherine crowson september 14 2021 will models of this kind also have negative effects absolutely the common observation that they could reinforce existing biases is the mildest possible example if we approach neural models as machines for mapping and rewiring collective behavior we will quickly see that they could do much worse for instance deepfakes could create new hermetically sealed subcultures and beliefs that are impossible to contest i m not trying to decide whether neural language models are good or bad in this essay just trying to clarify what s being modeled why people care and what kinds of good or bad effects we might expect reaching a comprehensive judgment is likely to take decades after all models are easy to distribute so this was never a problem like gene splicing that could stay bottled up as an ethical dilemma for one profession that controlled the tools neural models more closely resemble movable type they will change the way culture is transmitted in many social contexts since the consequences of movable type included centuries of religious war in europe the analogy is not meant to reassure i just mean that questions on this scale don t get resolved quickly or by experts we are headed for a broadly political debate about antitrust renewable energy and the shape of human culture itself a debate where everyone will have some claim to expertise 14 let me end however on a positive note i have suggested that approaching neural models as models of culture rather than intelligence or individual language use gives us even more reason to worry but it also gives us more reason to hope it is not entirely clear what we plan to gain by modeling intelligence since we already have more than seven billion intelligences on the planet by contrast it s easy to see how exploring spaces of possibility implied by the human past could support a more reflective and more adventurous approach to our future i can imagine a world where generative models of culture are used grotesquely or locked down as ip for netflix but i can also imagine a world where fan communities use them to remix plot tropes and gender norms making mass culture a more self conscious various and participatory phenomenon than the twentieth century usually allowed it to become i don t know which of those worlds we will build but either way i suspect we will need to reframe our conversation about artificial intelligence as a conversation about models of culture and the latent spaces they imply philosophers and science fiction writers may enjoy debating whether software can have mental attributes like intention but that old argument does little to illuminate the social questions new technologies are really raising neural language models are dangerous and fascinating because they can illuminate and transform shared patterns of behavior in other words aspects of culture when the problem is redescribed this way the concerns about equity foregrounded by stochastic parrots still matter deeply but the imagined contrast between mimicry and meaning in the article s title no longer connects with any satirical target culture clearly has meaning but i m not sure that anyone cares whether a culture has autonomous intent or whether it is merely parroting human action 1 ashish vaswani noam shazeer niki parmar jakob uszkoreit llion jones aidan n gomez lukasz kaiser illia polosukhin attention is all you need 31st conference on neural information processing systems nips 2017 long beach ca 2017 https arxiv org abs 1706 03762 2 emily m bender timnit gebru angelina mcmillan major margaret mitchell on the dangers of stochastic parrots can language models be too big facct 21 proceedings of the 2021 acm conference on fairness accountability and transparency march 2021 610 623 https doi org 10 1145 3442188 3445922 3 rishi bommasani et al on the opportunities and risks of foundation models corr aug 2021 https arxiv org abs 2108 07258 3 4 4 i t is language which speaks not the author roland barthes the death of the author image music text trans stephen heath new york hill and wang 1977 143 5 to this list one might also add the material and social aspects of book production in commenting on stochastic parrots katherine bode notes that book history prefers to paint a picture where meaning is dispersed across human and non human agents katherine bode qtd in lauren m e goodlad data centrism and its discontents critical ai oct 15 2021 https criticalai org 2021 10 14 blog recap stochastic parrots ethics of data curation 6 sandeep soni lauren f klein and jacob eisenstein abolitionist networks modeling language change in nineteenth century activist newspapers journal of cultural analytics january 18 2021 https culturalanalytics org article 18841 abolitionist networks modeling language change in nineteenth century activist newspapers ted underwood machine learning and human perspective pmla 135 1 jan 2020 92 109 http hdl handle net 2142 109140 7 i m writing about neural language models rather than large ones because i don t assume that ever increasing size is a definitional feature of this technology strategies to improve efficiency are discussed in bommasani et al 97 100 8 bhuwan dhingra jeremy r cole julian martin eisenschlos daniel gillick jacob eisenstein and william w cohen time aware language models as temporal knowledge bases corr 2021 https arxiv org abs 2106 15110 9 see for instance sid black leo gao phil wang connor leahy and stella biderman gpt neo large scale autoregressive language modeling with mesh tensorflow march 2021 https doi org 10 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