> They also still fail to solve objectively easy problems on a regular basis
Which?
What is exactly "actual understanding" . If it tells 1+1 = 2 it can perfectly explain why the result is 2. Or do you mean the actual transformer work during the 1+1 question?
Re:Artificial Insanity
by CamperBob2 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:45PM
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How'd your parrot do at IMO this year?
LLMs are certainly stochastic, but they no longer meet any sane person's definition of "parrot." I can't imagine Gebru disagreeing. Has anyone bothered to ask her?
(Consider responding with an actual counterpoint, so we can all see what reasoning might give rise to such a delusion. Does your pet parrot do calculus and write stories and reverse-engineer Adobe applications?)
And yet, they still output gibberish. They also still fail to solve objectively easy problems on a regular basis. That is because they are, indeed, still stochastic parrots without any actual understanding of anything or ability to reason about stuff. The argument hasn't collapsed at all.