Episode 7: There Are Now 15 Competing Evaluation Metrics (ft. Dr. Jeremy Kahn). December 12, 2022

Emily and Alex are joined by Dr. Jeremy G. Kahn to discuss the distressingly large number of evaluation metrics for artificial intelligence, and some new AI hell.
Jeremy G. Kahn has a PhD in computational linguistics, with a focus on information-theoretic and empirical engineering approaches to dealing with natural language (in text and speech). He’s gregarious, polyglot, a semi-auto-didact, and occasionally prolix. He also likes comic books, coffee, progressive politics, information theory, lateral thinking, science fiction, science fact, linear thinking, bicycles, beer, meditation, love, play, and inquiry. He lives in Seattle with his wife Dorothy and son Elliott.

This episode was recorded on December 12, 2022.

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References:

XKCD: Standards (xkcd.com/927)
wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021
Gish Gallop (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop)
The Bender Rule (thegradient.pub/the-benderrule-on-naming-the-l…)

DJ Khaled - You Played Yourself (knowyourmeme.com/memes/congratulations-you-pla…)

Jeff Kao's interrogation of public comment periods. (hackernoon.com/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-…)
Emily's blog post response to NYT piece (medium.com/@emilymenonbender/on-nyt-magazine-o…)
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