The only correct take on stochastic parrots: surface-level signals can compose real power
lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-27
- A well-known researcher reframes the "stochastic parrot" debate: the underlying neural net is substantively a stochastic parrot — what most sides get wrong is assuming this implies LLMs can't be incredibly powerful while being jagged.
- LLMs teach us that many things can be approximated and composed from dumb, surface-level signal.
- That itself is a profound finding about intelligence — and "that's kinda awesome."
Related event: ColBERT author: fear how powerful giant stochastic parrots are(2 posts)→
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