'Nothing wrong with stochastic parrot — we just made the parrot useful'

keunwoochoi · x · 2026-09-21

Google researcher Keunwoo Choi quipped that the classic "stochastic parrot" critique of LLMs was never wrong — humans just figured out how to make the parrot useful. A punchy one-liner juxtaposing the well-known criticism with the current practical reality of large language models.

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