Critique highlights AI hype as autocomplete illusion. Computational linguistics expert Emily Bender has criticized the current wave of AI enthusiasm as “the emperor has no clothes,” describing flagship technologies such as ChatGPT as merely glorified autocomplete systems and cautioning that their marketing obscures opaque data practices, energy waste, and ethical risks., The controversy around it solidified Bender’s position as the go-to linguist in arguing against AI boosterism. “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots” is not a write-up of original research., Emily Bender and Alex Hanna's new book, "The AI Con," aims to help readers see through AI hype. The authors spoke with Business Insider about frameworks for thinking about AI. They explain why, On Nov. 12, Emily Bender voiced skepticism about the purported benefits of large language models (LLMs) in her lecture “Don’t Try to Get Answers from a Stochastic Parrot,” the third and final lecture in Harvey Mudd College’s Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series., In this new book, authors Emily M. Bender, professor of linguistics at the University of Washington, and Alex Hanna, director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute, challenge our , .