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“Stochastic parrots” is not my term (it’s @emilymbender’s). But a lot of people today commenting on it are confused. To some extent (though …
“Stochastic parrots” is not my term (it’s @emilymbender’s). But a lot of people today commenting on it are confused. To some extent (though I don’t think it’s a perfect metaphor, and have said that be
“Stochastic parrots” is not my term (it’s @emilymbender’s). But a lot of people today commenting on it are confused. To some extent (though I don’t think it’s a perfect metaphor, and have said that before), pure LLMs are like stochastic parrots. But Astra almost certainly is NOT a pure LLM. (Note that OpenAI has not released any details.) My position has always been that LLMs would be part of the solution but not all of the solution, and that we need neurosymbolic computations as well. As far as I know/presuming Astra has harnesses/uses symbolic tools etc, Astra confirms that conjecture. These stochastic parrots are OUT OF CONTROL!
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Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-08-01