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Everyone! This is a straw-person argument. The Stochastic Parrot paper was about LLMs of 2021, not the AI of today, which are not LLMs but c…
Everyone! This is a straw-person argument. The Stochastic Parrot paper was about LLMs of 2021, not the AI of today, which are not LLMs but complex software systems with vast post training and many ext
Everyone! This is a straw-person argument. The Stochastic Parrot paper was about LLMs of 2021, not the AI of today, which are not LLMs but complex software systems with vast post training and many external software components. So the point of the stochastic parrot argument is that LLMs have zero understanding of language or anything else, they are just regurgitating training data. This hypothesis has been thoroughly disproven by LLMs solving millennium problems our smartest mathematicians have failed.
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Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-09-26