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I really enjoy Margaret Mitchell‘s podcast (she is the first author on the paper), and perhaps I missed something important in the paper, but: Shouldn’t we tre
by mark_l_watson 2y ago
I really enjoy Margaret Mitchell‘s podcast (she is the first author on the paper), and perhaps I missed something important in the paper, but:
Shouldn’t we treat separately autonomous agent we write ourselves, or purchase to run on our own computers, on our own data and that use public APIs for data?
If Margaret is reading this thread, I am curious what her opinion is.
For autonomous agents controlled by corporations and governments, I mostly agree with the paper.
- in3d 2y agoI'd recommend looking for other sources of information if you're relying on someone who co-authored the paper that introduced the most misleading and uninformed term of the LLM era: "stochastic parrot".
- currymj 2y agoit was a pretty defensible term at the time the paper came out, in the context of how LLMs were being trained and used. in this paper, it's clear that the authors don't think modern LLM-based systems are just stochastic parrots.