'Stochastic parrot' called a cognitive virus that blinded AI watchers for years
andrewthesmart · x · 2026-09-20
Responding to Jack Clark, researcher andrewthesmart notes the irony that critics of 'stochastic parrots' talk about it far more than the paper's authors ever did — the concept 'lives rent free' in AI people's minds. Quoted context: Clark called it a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025, temporarily blinding gifted people to the nature of AI progress and burning crucial years they could have spent thinking through the response.
Related event: Anthropic Co-founder Jack Clark Calls "Stochastic Parrot" a Cognitive Virus(9 posts)→
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