Alane Suhr, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, on agency in language: the kinds of meaning we make with words, what a language model actually is, and why we, not the concept of AI, hold the agency.
00:00 Agency in language
06:31 The reference of AI today
06:57 What a large language model is
09:10 Instruction tuning and RLHF
10:20 The connotation of AI
13:13 We have agency, not the concept
