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by ebb_earl_co 244 days ago
> … stochastic parrots… What a wonderful phrase, mind if I borrow it?
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Never mind the phrase. If your parrot can compete in international math and programming competitions at the gold-medal level and make entire subreddits fail the Turing test, I would like to borrow your parrot.
It's commonly used at this point, for what it's worth
"the term stochastic parrot is a metaphor, introduced by Emily M. Bender and colleagues in a 2021 paper, that frames large language models as systems that statistically mimic text without real understanding"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

you don't have to get permission

plus, they didn't come up with it