Bender, Gebru et al. present On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots at FAccT
Presented On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots at FAccT — characterized a language model as a system that probabilistically stitches together the linguistic forms it has observed, without any reference to meaning
Why it matters
"Stochastic parrot" became the standard vocabulary of the LLM-skeptic camp. Set the baseline for the debate over understanding and meaning
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
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