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by fragmede 29 days ago
Also with the stochastic parrot thing. If you say just the right thing to the right human and the right time, they'll very predictibly say their favorite movie/book quote or song lyric, like some sort of parrot.
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And also, if you put an actual parrot in a room full of programmers, it might learn a few word of programming jargon, but it never will become a useful coding partner the way LLMs are.
An LLM will tell you how a song feels, even if it has literally no way to experience music. Because it's not thoughts or feelings that you get from an LLM. We take a massive amount of information, compress it into a large graph, then explore sections of the graph via prompts. That's what the stochastic parrot means. And that doesn't compare with how humans think. It's just a completely different architecture
The trouble is that a 24/7 AI stochastic parrot does pretty damn well at some things.

In my estimation, we're arguing about how big the blast radius will be.