What Does This Mean?
A critical metaphor for large language models, describing them as systems that statistically remix and recombine patterns in training text without any genuine understanding, intent, or meaning behind the words they produce.
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Elixir, Erlang, the BEAM (and Lean) · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Every time the chatbot confidently makes something up, someone in the replies calls it a stochastic parrot."
LORE & ORIGIN
Coined in the paper 'On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜' by Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell, presented at the ACM FAccT conference in March 2021; the term later spread from AI research circles into mainstream AI-culture debate.
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