Mitchell points to his and Emily Bender's essays on how "stochastic parrot" refers to LLMs
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-09-27
In the ongoing debate with Blanche Minerva over whether LLMs are still just next-token predictors, mmitchellai notes that he and Emily Bender have written the opposite piece — explaining how the "stochastic parrot" framing refers to LLMs — linking to their two essays as primary references for the terminology dispute.
Related event: Melanie Mitchell Sparks Debate: Today's Systems Are Not LLMs(31 posts)→
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