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So you think stochastic parrot is an accurate term and not an attempt to be dismissive? So if someone woke up from a coma and asked what ChatGPT is you would sa
by snapcaster 11mo ago
So you think stochastic parrot is an accurate term and not an attempt to be dismissive? So if someone woke up from a coma and asked what ChatGPT is you would say "stochastic parrot" and think you've explained things?
- sota_pop 11mo agoWhile “stochastic parrot” is obviously an over-simplification, and the way the phrase was originally coined in context was likewise obviously intended to be dismissive, I think the analogy holds. I see them as a lossy storage system. I think the expectation that simply continuing to scale the transformer architecture is not likely to exhibit the type of “intelligence” for which _researchers_ are looking. For my personal taste, the most interesting development of NLP in this latest AI wave (and LLMs in general) is RAG. I also have always wondered why the tokenization process hasn’t been deemed more important historically. To me, it seems like THE MOST critical part of how Deep Learning works.