[xpe]

The paper that coined the term "stochastic parrots" would not agree with the claim that LLMs are "unable to produce a response that isn't in their training data". And the research has advanced a _long_ way since then.

[1]: Bender, Emily M., et al. "On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?." Proceedings of the 2021 ACM conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency. 2021.

[fragmede]

woosh

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42343084

[xpe]

/facepalm. Woosh indeed. Can I blame pronoun confusion? (Not to mention this misunderstanding kicked off a farcically unproductive ensuing discussion.)

[fragmede]

it's just further evidence that we're also stoichastic parrots :)

[ganzuul]

That is why we invented God.

[xpe]

Woosh.