Boaz Barak pushes back on Mitchell: were 'stochastic parrots' only pre-2022 models?
boazbaraktcs · x · 2026-09-27
Boaz Barak presses Melanie Mitchell: does she mean 'LLMs' and 'stochastic parrots' only applied to pre-2022 models, i.e., before InstructGPT? He argues the community always would have continued to call today's systems LLMs, and nobody claimed the obvious next steps would be categorically different.
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