Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?
Abstract Benchmarking large language models (LLMs) is a key practice for evaluating their capabilities and risks. This paper considers the development of “BIG Bench,” a crowdsourced benchmark designed to test LLMs “Beyond the Imitation Game.” Drawing on linguistic anthropological and ethnographic analysis of the project's GitHub repository, we examine ...
Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
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Metaphors in context and in isolation: Familiarity, aptness, concreteness, metaphoricity, and structure norms for 300 two-word expressions. [PDF]
Pissani L, de Almeida RG.
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Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
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Some conceptual and grammatical properties of body part metonymies in English and Bosnian
The paper deals with metonymies having body parts as source domains in English and Bosnian. According to Cognitive Linguistics standpoint, human cognition is based on bodily functioning.
Adisa Imamović
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Is explaining more like showing or more like building?-Agency in metaphors of explaining. [PDF]
Porwol P, Scharlau I.
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“They Speak Our Language!”: A Kinship Anthropology of Policing and Oversight in Kenya
ABSTRACT This article introduces a kinship anthropology of policing framework to analyze the complexities and contestedness of police reform trajectories. Kinship is approached in a processual sense, made through practices and performances, and I contend that police officers act as a kin‐like group who engage in kinning.
Tessa Diphoorn
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"Voices through masks: a stylistic analysis of selected Covid-19 pandemic poems". [PDF]
Galal-Eldin N, Zaki Eldin A.
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Toxic Entanglements: Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the outsourcing of asylum processing and resettlement from Global North to South. Many of these containment practices retrace the fault lines of more typically thought‐of colonial extractive regimes. This article draws on long‐term ethnographic research conducted in the Republic of Nauru, the world'
Julia Morris
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Language, silence, and logic: Zen, Nishida, and fthe Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in cognitive and cultural perspectives. [PDF]
Kuang X, He C, Chen Q, Song Y, Song T.
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ABSTRACT Introduction Media reporting of migrant drowning deaths can serve multiple purposes, including advocacy, improving data, and supporting inclusive policy development. However, such drownings remain underexamined in both public discourse and academic research. This study investigates how migrants are portrayed in Australian newspaper coverage of
Emma Derainne +2 more
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