ColBERT author's take: the scary lesson of 'stochastic parrots' is how powerful very large parrots are
lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-27
Omar Khattab (lateinteraction), creator of ColBERT, offers a contrarian read on the "stochastic parrots" critique: rather than a dismissal of LLMs, the phrase's real lesson is how remarkable it is that very, very large parrots can be this capable. A witty reframing of a long-running AI debate.
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