Analytics, Linguistics and LLMs with Leif Weatherby

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Leif Weatherby about artificial intelligence and its implications for language and sports analytics.

We are joined by Leif Weatherby, author of Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism, to talk about artificial intelligence: what these new technologies do, but more than that how the fact of their existence can teach us more about how language works. And then we continue down a variety of paths talking sports analytics, optimization, and other topics. https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919320/language-machines/ Support the show

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike Goodman, Michael Caley

Guest: Leif Weatherby

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• sports analytics
• language
• optimization
• cultural AI

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• language
• sports analytics
• optimization
• cultural AI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Minnesota Press

Books & works: Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism

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