Is it possible to fall over on purpose? What does the construction of words in a sentence tell us about the way we use natural language to convey thoughts and ideas? We often think about language as being an essential part of what it means to be human, but does the rise of new artificial intelligence technologies force us to reconsider this?

In this week’s podcast, we discuss language. As the popularity of ChatGPT and other large language models continues to grow, we ask what we are giving away to these models and speculate on how they might impact the way we use language. We discuss Ordinary language philosophy, Steven Pinker’s theory of the association between words and thoughts and linguistic codes in music from the American South.

A few things we mentioned in this podcast:

- Del Boy Falls Through the Bar - Only Fools and Horses
- Steven Pinker
- Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT
- The Language Revolution: How LLMs Could Transform the World
- Ordinary Language Philosophy
- Songs of Slave Resistance

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