For Stochastic Parrots Day 2023, Asmelash Teka Hadgu, Mark Riedl, and Belzie Mont-Louis discuss the hype surrounding applications for AI and how it is affecting their work as educators, translators, and researchers. With moderation by Emily Bender.

Belzie Mont-Louis is a 7-12 instructional coach at Boston Latin Academy and has been an educator for almost two decades, serving as a teacher, teacher leader, and instructional coach.

Asmelash Teka Hadgu is the co-founder and CTO of Lesan AI, where he has built state-of-the-art machine translation systems to and from Amharic, Tigrinya and English.

Dr. Mark Riedl is a professor at Georgia Tech and the associate director of the Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center, performing research that focuses on human-centered artificial intelligence.