Jack Clark: 'stochastic parrot' was a cognitive virus that blinded people to AI progress
anpaure · x · 2026-09-20
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark argues the "stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025, temporarily blinding many gifted people to the nature of AI progress and burning crucial years that could have gone toward thinking through the response. One reply retorts with the classic narrator meme: "they were, in fact, not gifted."
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