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Multiple readings No ai is not stochastic parrot a99e57766bed Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Signal 19d ago
⚡ 2343 h early

No ai is not stochastic parrot a99e57766bed

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Brian Merchant
“But LLMs are, to this day, still well enough understood as stochastic parrots. It's an accurate description of the technology. Many AI models involve more than LLMs, as fellow co-author Margaret Mitchell pointed out, but it's *still* a useful critical frame…” evidence ↗
6 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Margaret Mitchell Will Oremus Brian Merchant Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Meredith Rose
17 experts discussed this · 104 posts
Will Oremus: feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying…
Will Oremus: you can eschew anthropomorphizing language like "think" and "reason" and even "intelligence" but anyone who uses these tools regularly cannot fail to see that what they do is something more than ju…
Will Oremus: or if it is parroting, it's stretching the bounds of your conventional understanding of that term so far as to render it misleading. parrots cannot solve complex problems, self-interrogate and self…
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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 18d ago
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AI nearly triggered US China war

AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Sam Biddle
“I wrote about something that was making me feel nuts: After weeks of discourse around hypothetical existential threats from AI triggered global calls for government intervention, we learned a faulty AI system almost triggered a US-China war. And no one real…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Margaret Mitchell Sam Biddle

“I wrote about something that was making me feel nuts: After weeks of discourse around hypothetical existential threats from AI triggered global calls for government intervention, we learned a faulty AI system almost triggered a US-China war. And no one real…”

Primary source theintercept.com ↗
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6 experts · 13 posts · 17d ago
Margaret Mitchell Anil Dash VE, cybersocial occult investigator Anthony Moser Mary Branscombe Abstract Tesseract
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“The more I learn about critical and historical AI studies, the less certain I am this part is completely accurate. It was _also_ scientists doing interesting and thoughtful work, that’s true, but i…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Anil Dash: Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL …
Anil Dash: I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only …
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