no code implementations • 11 Jun 2023 • Julia Witte Zimmerman, Denis Hudon, Kathryn Cramer, Jonathan St. Onge, Mikaela Fudolig, Milo Z. Trujillo, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds
We propose that considering what it is like to be an LLM like ChatGPT, as Nagel might have put it, can help us gain insight into its capabilities in general, and in particular, that its exposure to linguistic training data can be productively reframed as exposure to the diegetic information encoded in language, and its deficits can be reframed as ignorance of extradiegetic information, including supradiegetic linguistic information.
no code implementations • 15 May 2023 • Yoshi Meke Bird, Sarah E. Grobe, Michael V. Arnold, Sean P. Rogers, Mikaela I. Fudolig, Julia Witte Zimmerman, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds
An increase to the log-odds of ``homeless'' appearing in an English-language tweet, as well as an acceleration in the increase in average tweet sentiment, suggest that tweets about homelessness are also affected by trends at the nation-scale.
