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Bender, Gebru et al. present On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots at FAccT

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Presented On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots at FAccT — characterized a language model as a system that probabilistically stitches together the linguistic forms it has observed, without any reference to meaning

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"Stochastic parrot" became the standard vocabulary of the LLM-skeptic camp. Set the baseline for the debate over understanding and meaning

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