Sarcastic vs stochastic parrot images: evidence of conceptual understanding
Financial-Local-5543 · reddit · 2026-10-05
Citing Geoffrey Hinton's claim that today's LLMs show "clear understanding," this post highlights an image-model experiment: prompts for "stochastic parrots" versus "sarcastic parrots" produced images that correctly distinguish the two concepts—including chaos from a voice-to-text error—offered as evidence that current models grasp meaning rather than merely parroting.
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