[ninetyninenine]

People are delusional. There’s a large cohort of folks on HN who still think AI is just a stochastic parrot. Depending on the topic or the thread you’ll find more of those people and get voted down if you even imply that LLMs can reason.

[hnfong]

I think many humans are stochastic parrots, so in a sense those parrots are damn right.

[throwawaymaths]

why "many" why not "all"?

[hnfong]

Obviously I'm not a stochastic parrot :P

[throwawaymaths]

sounds like something a stochastic parrot like me would say

[ninetyninenine]

My claim is the LLM is not a stochastic parrot. So technically they're wrong. But of course I understand your point.

[sothatsit]

They are to some extent though. The bigger point is that they are not just a stochastic parrot. But examples like the modified riddles where they just answer the original riddle shows that they have the behaviour of stochastic parrots at least some of the time.

[ninetyninenine]

Yeah you're right. I guess that's the spirit of my intent, to say they are more than stochastic parrots... a behavior they, like humans, exhibit sometimes