Melanie Mitchell vs DeepMind Co-founder: Do Today's Models Still Count as 'Stochastic Parrots'?
_aidan_clark_ · x · 2026-09-27
Melanie Mitchell and DeepMind co-founder Aidan Clark debate on X: Mitchell notes the Stochastic Parrots paper used the original definition — a language model as a statistical model of language, not of everything post-training adds. Clark counters that everyone would have kept calling today's systems LLMs, and nobody said the next step would be fundamentally different. The exchange probes whether the stochastic parrot critique still applies.
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