> Well the Gebru & Mitchell paper[1] was published before In-Context-Learning was discovered (an ICL was very unexpected), so yes, I think they were ignorant of

> Well the Gebru & Mitchell paper[1] was published before In-Context-Learning was discovered (an ICL was very unexpected), so yes, I think they were ignorant of ICL at the time. ??? One of us is confused here (I'm fully willing to admit that it's me), but AFAIK, the big discovery of in-context learning was described in "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners" - published in 2020[1], vs 2021 for the stochastic parrots paper. Regardless, it's not like the authors of the stochastic parrots paper have disavowed the term. They're still referring to the paper without correction in the statement they published about the proposed pause last month: https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023 https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March20... [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf