ColBERT author: fear how powerful giant stochastic parrots are

ColBERT author Omar Khattab argues neural networks are indeed stochastic parrots, but the inference that LLMs can't be powerful is wrong—jagged capabilities emerge from combining surface signals, making giant parrots formidable.

2026-09-27 ~ 2026-09-27 · 2 related posts

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