Researcher sides with the stochastic parrots paper: criticizing it with today's LLMs is anachronistic
PMinervini · x · 2026-09-27
Researcher tallinzen says he finds himself siding with the stochastic parrots paper — which he never liked — in response to the claim that "what we have now are not LLMs." He argues the term "language model" had a specific meaning when that paper was written, so judging the paper by today's tool-laden coding agents is anachronistic, even if the paper has other valid criticisms.
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