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If you're not angry, I suppose you're not in the "GPT shouldn't exist" camp, so it's not that it's a strawman, it's just that you're not in the group of people

If you're not angry, I suppose you're not in the "GPT shouldn't exist" camp, so it's not that it's a strawman, it's just that you're not in the group of people the author is arguing with. I have indeed met people in the "stochastic parrots" camp who are very angry, and think GPT should be stopping, which strikes me as elitism as the author describes.

visarga 4y ago
Interesting that the author, who supports the "stochastic parrot" interpretation, still works on GPT detection. If it's just a stochastic parrot, surely it will be trivial to detect, and its outputs useless anyway. > One of the most immediate is how to make AI output detectable as such, in order to discourage its use for academic cheating as well as mass-generated propaganda and spam. As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, I’ve been working on that problem since this summer I don't really know what a "stochastic parrot" is supposed to mean. It is an LLM that can do 1000 NLP tasks, or a glorified Markov Chain word salad factory? It's also a bad term: demeaning to parrots - they can reproduce and don't need our help to survive, and demeaning to LLMs that can actually do more than parroting - they generate novel text that makes sense. Gebru really did a number on NLP, inventing such an insulting name, no wonder she was kicked out, I wouldn't want her in my team, she would just piss on any idea.