Occam's Razor and Bender and Koller's Octopus
<|reference_start|>Occam's Razor and Bender and Koller's Octopus: We discuss the teaching of the discussion surrounding Bender and Koller's prominent ACL 2020 paper, "Climbing toward NLU: on meaning form, and understanding in the age of data" \cite{bender2020climbing}. We present what we understand to be the main contentions of the paper, and then recommend that the students engage with the natural counter-arguments to the claims in the paper. We attach teaching materials that we use to facilitate teaching this topic to undergraduate students.<|reference_end|>
@article{guerzhoy2024occam's,
    title={Occam's Razor and Bender and Koller's Octopus},
    author={Michael Guerzhoy},
    journal={In ACL 2024 Workshop on Teaching NLP (TeachNLP 2024)},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.21070},
    primaryClass={cs.CL physics.hist-ph}
}