If Jev turns out to be scaled-up BERT, the 'stochastic parrot' baseline wins
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-19
Researcher Rex Douglass jokes that it would be pretty funny if the rumored Jev model turned out to be BERT scaled up — meaning the "stochastic parrot" baseline, a classic dismissive label for LLMs, could actually do most things. He'd love that karmic outcome for Christmas.
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