alt Hacker NewsI 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 I feel like the "stochastic parrot" meme is a bit outdated by now.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 I feel like the "stochastic parrot" meme is a bit outdated by now.
The stochastic parrot of my reference is not a meme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot
The term was introduced in a 2021 paper on AI ethics titled "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? " that was authored by Timnit Gebru, Emily M. Bender, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Margaret Mitchell.[a]
> The bots' output may be annoying to read but they're clearly onto something
Sure. Next-token prediction with huge source set and computation power. Nothing new there.