Stochastic parrot: Learned a new term
I learned a new term Stochastic Parrot – it's used when referring to LLMs as systems mimicking text without really understanding it. It's defined by Wikipedia as:
In machine learning, the term stochastic parrot is a metaphor that frames large language models as systems that statistically mimic text without real understanding. The term carries a negative connotation.
The term was first coined by Emily M. Bender in her paper On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?.
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