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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.
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https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Stochastic%2C+...
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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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