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stochastic parrots

stochastic parrots is the plural of stochastic parrot.

Meaning of stochastic parrot

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...

Questions about stochastic parrots

What is stochastic parrots the plural of?
Stochastic parrots is the plural of stochastic parrot.

Words near stochastic parrots in the dictionary

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

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