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Factually! with Adam Conover

Tocastic Parrots Are Really Intelligent, I'm Reliably Informed

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The idea with the parrot metaphor, parrots are actually very intelligent. And it's also possible that some of them, when they imitate human speech, are doing that because they've learned that they can get lar effect with a particular sequence of sounds em. But i'm pretty sure that they're not actually using language the way humans use language. So sacastic means random or probablistically guided. The paper was written together with doctor timy gabrew and doctor margaret mitchell and some of their other colleagues at google.

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