ChatGPT Is Not Intelligent w/ Emily M. Bender
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Risks of Chatbots
The idea with the phrase stochastic parrots was to basically just give a cute metaphor that would allow people to get a better sense of what this technology is doing. We're drawing here really on the English verb to parrot, which is to repeat back without any understanding and remaining agnostic about the extent to which parrots have internal lives or know what's gonna happen when they say certain things. And so let's leave the actual parrots out of this. So stochastic means randomly, but according to a probability distribution. And parrot here is to parrot to say something about understanding.
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