What surprises me is anyone is surprised. Obviously a stocastic parrot has no understanding, so any conveyance of true understanding it delivers will be rare and accidental.
I mean, having said what I said, we are literally in a thread about the future of mathematics being in question because LLMs are solving advanced problems. I feel like the "stochastic parrot" meme is a bit outdated by now. The bots' output may be annoying to read but they're clearly onto something, whether we call it "understanding" or not.
I mean, having said what I said, we are literally in a thread about the future of mathematics being in question because LLMs are solving advanced problems. I feel like the "stochastic parrot" meme is a bit outdated by now. The bots' output may be annoying to read but they're clearly onto something, whether we call it "understanding" or not.