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Parrots certainly do experience social needs

• AlexandrB 4mo ago
  The "parrot" part of "stochastic parrot" is quite an ambiguous choice. Taken literally, it's referencing an animal that's actually quite intelligent and capable of complex, novel tasks but has no way to connect those to human language. How I've always read this though is the more literary meaning of "parrot" as "a thing that repeats words with no context". Perhaps "stochastic photocopier" would be a clearer metaphor.
  • xgulfie 4mo ago
    Or perhaps tape recorder would reflect the linearity of the input/output strings
• TonyAlicea10 4mo ago
  Fair but not the human sociology I mean.