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People are delusional. There’s a large cohort of folks on HN who still think AI is just a stochastic parrot. Depending on the topic or the thread you’ll find mo
by ninetyninenine 1y ago
People are delusional. There’s a large cohort of folks on HN who still think AI is just a stochastic parrot. Depending on the topic or the thread you’ll find more of those people and get voted down if you even imply that LLMs can reason.
- hnfong 1y agoI think many humans are stochastic parrots, so in a sense those parrots are damn right.
- throwawaymaths 1y agowhy "many" why not "all"?
- hnfong 1y agoObviously I'm not a stochastic parrot :P
- throwawaymaths 1y agosounds like something a stochastic parrot like me would say
- ninetyninenine 1y agoMy claim is the LLM is not a stochastic parrot. So technically they're wrong. But of course I understand your point.
- sothatsit 1y agoThey are to some extent though. The bigger point is that they are not just a stochastic parrot. But examples like the modified riddles where they just answer the original riddle shows that they have the behaviour of stochastic parrots at least some of the time.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoYeah you're right. I guess that's the spirit of my intent, to say they are more than stochastic parrots... a behavior they, like humans, exhibit sometimes