Champagne Meme Takes On the 'Stochastic Parrot' Debate: Only Neocortex Counts as Thinking
tszzl · x · 2026-09-26
AI researcher tszzl riffs on the classic champagne-must-come-from-Champagne joke to mock the 'stochastic parrot' debate: it's only thinking when it comes from the mammalian neocortex region of Tegmark IV, "otherwise it's just sparkling stochastic parrot." A quintessential AI-circle in-joke poking fun at both sides of the 'real thinking' argument.
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