Can foundation models truly understand? The stochastic parrot question revisited
ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-09-12
An excerpt on what foundation models can understand about their training data: today's best language models produce fluent language yet lapse into incoherence reminiscent of "stochastic parrots" (Bender et al. 2021). The open question: are these lapses evidence of inherent limits, or could future models genuinely understand the symbols they process?
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