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stochastic parrot

stochastic parrot noun: a language model that uses artificial intelligence to generate seemingly coherent or contextually relevant text but does not truly understand the meaning of the language it is processing.

Noun

stochastic parrot (plural stochastic parrots)

  1. (derogatory, machine learning) A language model that uses artificial intelligence to generate seemingly coherent or contextually relevant text but does not truly understand the meaning of the language it is processing
    • […] an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot.2021 March 3, Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Shmargaret Shmitchell, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜”, in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM...
    • i am a stochastic parrot, and so r u2022 December 4, @sama (Sam Altman), x.com

Forms of stochastic parrot

pluralstochastic parrots

Origin of stochastic parrot

Coined by American linguist Emily M. Bender in 2021 as a reminder of the limitations of language models, see quotations.

Questions about stochastic parrot

What does stochastic parrot mean?
Stochastic parrot means a language model that uses artificial intelligence to generate seemingly coherent or contextually relevant text but does not truly understand the meaning of the language it is processing.
What part of speech is stochastic parrot?
Stochastic parrot is a noun.
What is the plural of stochastic parrot?
The plural of stochastic parrot is stochastic parrots.

Words near stochastic parrot in the dictionary

  1. stochastic calculus
  2. stochastic differential equation
  3. stochastic differential equations
  4. stochastic matrices
  5. stochastic matrix
  6. stochastic parrot
  7. stochastic parrots
  8. stochastic process
  9. stochastic processes
  10. stochastic terror
  11. stochastic terrorism

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