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Mottes Baileys Stochastic Parrots AI rhetoric essay

Of Mottes, Baileys, and Stochastic Parrots 🦜

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro critical slop studies

“New blog post! I argue that the “stochastic parrots” metaphor dismisses LLM capabilities by reducing them to “haphazardly stitching together” text... ...but retreats to the trivially true claim that LLMs predict the next token when challenged. doomscrolling…”

“doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/of-mottes-... most of you are better off reading this than arguing with whoever on here”

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9 experts · 63 posts · 12d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Cat Hicks Chelsea Parlett critical slop studies Adam L Mary Branscombe Amy Hoy
Reaction converging Markets & investment · 4 Research & technical analysis · 1
Cat Hicks: "why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often har…
Cat Hicks: because tasks gate other tasks. Because measuring the hours saved by washing machines is a relatively useful index for quality of life improvement. Because the time it takes for you to get from the…
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7 experts · 29 posts · 13d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Maxim Raginsky Clément Canonne Eli Sennesh critical slop studies tweety fish Al Merose
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 3
Eugene Vinitsky: Once again, if you are a senior researcher spreading doom to junior researchers, shut up shut up shut up. It’s your job to figure out a path forward, even in high uncertainty times. Come back when …
Eugene Vinitsky: This is not a call to be dishonest! But you don’t have to say anything if you don’t have anything useful to say
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5 experts · 20 posts · 19d ago
Simon Willison Phillip Isola critical slop studies rev. howard arson Amy Hoy
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Simon Willison: Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic…
rev. howard arson: Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic…
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