Over there in another part of the universe there are people who are yelling that LLMs are “stochastic parrots.” Their intention is to discredit LLMs as dangerous evil devices Not too far away from those folks are those saying it’s “autocomplete on steroids.” That’s only marginally better.
Saying LLMs are “next word predictors” feeds into that. Now, I’m talking about rhetoric here, not intellectual substance. But rhetoric matters. There needs to be a better way of talking about these devices for a general audience.
Over there in another part of the universe there are people who are yelling that LLMs are “stochastic parrots.” Their intention is to discredit LLMs as dangerous evil devices Not too far away from those folks are those saying it’s “autocomplete on steroids.” That’s only marginally better.
Saying LLMs are “next word predictors” feeds into that. Now, I’m talking about rhetoric here, not intellectual substance. But rhetoric matters. There needs to be a better way of talking about these devices for a general audience.
Oh, thanks for the link. It looks interesting.