mmitchell_ai pushes back on 'stochastic parrot' critique as a category error
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-09-21
Responding to Jack Clark's claim that 'stochastic parrot' was a cognitive virus blinding smart people to AI progress, researcher mmitchellai calls it a bad take: it conflates AI agents with LLMs, AI's evolution with Anthropic's specific work, and cause with effect. She links to a longer discussion.
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