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Re:Understanding Reasoning LLMs by UniverseHacker on Thursday February 06, 2025 @08:58PM (#42968459)
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.
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Re:Understanding Reasoning LLMs by danielmarkbruce on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:20PM (#42968582)
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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Re:Understanding Reasoning LLMs by ggm on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:39PM (#42968663)
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Stochastic%2C+...
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Re:Understanding Reasoning LLMs by ggm on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:40PM (#42968670)
And the word "hallucination" ... has very little to do with...
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Re:Understanding Reasoning LLMs by HappMacDonald on Saturday February 08, 2025 @06:26PM (#42987110)
But it's far easier for human parrots to parrot the soundbyte "stochastic parrot" as a thought-terminating cliche.
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