Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on “Stochastic Parrots”

Summary

In March 2021, a group of four researchers—a collaboration of linguists and computer scientists—published their now legendary paper “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜” The paper received significant attention at the time (in part because Google fired two of the authors, Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, shortly before its publication). It argued that large language models (LLMs) generate text by statistically predicting likely sequences of words rather th

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