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UniverseHacker
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Understanding Reasoning LLMs
I'm sure both of you know this, but "stochastic parrot" refers to the title of a research article that contained a particular argument about LLM limitations that had very little to do with parrots.
danielmarkbruce
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The term is much more broadly known than the content of that (rather silly) paper.... I'm not even certain that it's the first use of the term.
ggm
89 days ago
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https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Stochastic%2C+...
ggm
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And the word "hallucination" ... has very little to do with...
HappMacDonald
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But it's far easier for human parrots to parrot the soundbyte "stochastic parrot" as a thought-terminating cliche.
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