Mitchell: LLMs Remain Stochastic Parrots

Margaret Mitchell reaffirms that LLMs are fundamentally stochastic, imitative systems, and this "stochastic parrot" characterization will not change unless the entire paradigm shifts, though she notes the mechanism is remarkably powerful.

2026-08-30 ~ 2026-08-30 · 2 related posts

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