Rebecca Lee

Ling PhD Candidate, CU Boulder
Cognitive Semantics, Syntax (CxG), Aspiring Educational Developer, she/they

[Rebecca Lee @rebeccalee345]

@CalvinPollak @world_on_a_wire Ooooooh this looks awesome

[Rebecca Lee @rebeccalee345]

@world_on_a_wire Yeah what a rhetorical move right. Makes so much sense why they’re calling them that this is just capitalism isn’t it. 😕

[Rebecca Lee @rebeccalee345]

@juanmvsa 🙃 🫂 that sounds stressful 😩

[Rebecca Lee @rebeccalee345]

For the second time this month I just heard about the job title of “futurist” in relation to AI. What kind of neoliberal consulting bs is this like yikes

[Rebecca Lee @rebeccalee345]

@Bali_Maha Thanks for this, I love the points you’re making here. Also reminds me of this tweet yesterday—
Seeing this in a lot of spaces I’m in, too.

[Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @KatieConradKS]

The ethics of AI development, training, and deployment is not the same as, or reducible to, "ethical use." I'm seeing the latter sliding in to the discourse (esp in higher ed) and I resist it as a deliberate techno-determinist elision.

[Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @KatieConradKS]

The ethics of AI development, training, and deployment is not the same as, or reducible to, "ethical use." I'm seeing the latter sliding in to the discourse (esp in higher ed) and I resist it as a deliberate techno-determinist elision.

[Rebecca Lee @rebeccalee345]

@Marc__Watkins @RosenzweigJane Same, I feel like citations treat it too much like a person - if I’m teaching FYs that “argument is conversation” (between humans who can actually disagree/respond with intent), citing a chatbot as a participant in that conversation does NOT sit well with me

[Find me on bsky @colin-fraser.net @colin_fraser]

I���d love for technology reporters to adopt even the teensiest amount of skepticism

[Rebecca Lee @rebeccalee345]

@MaureenKosse Dude, right. Well I haven’t really started writing but I’m not looking forward to this problem 😅

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

Just saw some reporting that OpenAI is releasing a demo/prototype of something called SearchGPT. So re-upping this thread:

Chatbots are not a good replacement for search engines.

[Rua M. Williams @FractalEcho]

I teach them what AI actually is, what it does, and all the ways the results are not actually good. I have them read about the labor exploitation and the environmental impact. I tell them that I would prefer their imperfect English to AI. And I tell them I am not the AI police.

[Rebecca Lee @rebeccalee345]

@raulpacheco I am a PhD student so take this with a grain of salt (and I think you’re maybe more talking about how to do this in conclusion sections maybe?) but I find John swales work on creating a research space in intros really helpful for thinking about this— https://t.co/uvDD1Q78RS

[tern @1goodtern]

Ten things you can say instead of "during covid"

[Dorothea Baur (Dr.) @DorotheaBaur]

Long but great piece @techreview. If you have time, read it (takes ca. 1h). Here are some of my favorite quotes. "AI has come to mean all things to all people... It can feel as if different camps are talking past one another, not always in good faith" 1/12 https://t.co/mVJjENGpty

[Rebecca Lee @rebeccalee345]

@world_on_a_wire Congrats!!! That’s awesome!

[Rebecca Lee @rebeccalee345]

@AnnaRMills Text papier mache (from Emily Bender)

[Rebecca Lee @rebeccalee345]

@world_on_a_wire Hah, I need to email eve, that sounds so similar to what Maureen and I also did, cool! Wish I was doing this conference, ooooops

[Rebecca Lee @rebeccalee345]

@world_on_a_wire @complingy And it’s invaded the way people talk about LLMs in SUCH a pervasive way. Like even if ‘install wizard’ construes that tech agentively, it’s so much more extreme with LLMs? And people don’t seem to be viewing it metaphorically too, which seems important