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I'm sure both of you know this, but "stochastic parrot" refers to the title of a research article that contained a particular argument about LLM limitations tha

by _yb2s 2y ago

I'm sure both of you know this, but "stochastic parrot" refers to the title of a research article that contained a particular argument about LLM limitations that had very little to do with parrots.

danielmarkbruce 2y ago
The term is much more broadly known than the content of that (rather silly) paper.... I'm not even certain that it's the first use of the term.
- ggm 2y ago
  https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Stochastic%2C+parrot&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Stochastic%2C+...
ggm 2y ago
And the word "hallucination" ... has very little to do with...
HappMacDonald 2y ago
But it's far easier for human parrots to parrot the soundbyte "stochastic parrot" as a thought-terminating cliche.