![]() ![]() like poking at systems and seeing where they break. Gretchen: I think one of the things that we have in common, definitely one of the reasons I enjoy following your blog and Twitter feed and so on, is that both linguists and your approach to A.I. Lauren: Janelle, we are so excited to have you on the show today to talk about how we can make machines do language. Gretchen: You can get access to this episode and 34 other bonus episodes – that’s twice as much Lingthusiasm that you can listen to – at /lingthusiasm. Lauren: Our current bonus is on the future of English and what English might look like in a couple of centuries from now, inspired by Gretchen’s New York Times article. You can listen to a bonus episode with Claire if you’d like to get to know her better as well. ![]() Gretchen: Our fantastic producer Claire, who’s been with us since the very beginning, is also going to be taking on some more of the administration for the podcast, so you’ll see her around a bit on social media and on Patreon. Lauren: Our last exciting announcement is that our patrons also helped us meet a new funding goal, which means that we now have some additional ling-ministration support. And we’re excited to get to try that out. We’re really excited to see you in the Discord. Gretchen: Thanks to everybody who’s been a patron so far. Lauren: You can get other items at our /merch page, but the stickers are an exclusive for our patrons. You can join that tier on Patreon as well. Because the original trial run of stickers that we did with the special offer last year were really popular, we thought we’d provide a way for you to do that around the year. Gretchen: You can stick that to your laptop, your water bottle, your notebook, anything else in your life. Patrons who are at that tier for three months or more will get stickers that say, “Lingthusiast” on them. Lauren: We want to see more Lingthusiasm not just online but also on all kinds of things, which is why we are also sending stickers over the next few months to patrons at the Ling-phabet tier. You can join the Patreon at the tier where you get bonus episodes as well, and you also have a space to talk about those bonus episodes and the regular Lingthusiasm episodes and any other linguistics things you wanna talk about. It’s a bit of an experiment, but we think it’ll be really fun to do. ![]() We’re really excited to see what this community becomes. We’re giving you a space where you can talk about linguistics, share your interesting linguistics links that you come across, and talk about them in a space with other lingthusiasm fans. ![]() Gretchen: We’ve heard from a lot of you that you got into linguistics because of Lingthusiasm or it reawakened your memories of how much you like linguistics because you did some courses on it way back when and now you wish you could talk about linguistics more. We are introducing a Discord, which is an online chat space, for patrons to share their lingthusiasm with their fellow lingthusiasts. Lauren: It’s a new year and we have new, big, exciting plans for the Lingthusiasm Patreon page. Today, we’re getting enthusiastic about artificial intelligence – teaching computers language – with special guest Dr Janelle Shane, who runs the blog A.I. and is the author of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, which is a fun new book about A.I. Lauren: Welcome to Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics! I’m Lauren Gawne. Links to studies mentioned and further reading can be found on t he Episode 40 show notes page. Listen to the episode here or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s been lightly edited for readability. This is a transcript for Lingthusiasm Episode 40: Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle Shane. ![]()
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