2023-04-20 21:00:36
Reflecting on yesterday’s poll results, a PRO TIP: when discussing artificial intelligence, learn to use the term “
stochastic parrot.”
As correctly determined by the majority who answered yesterday’s poll, recent excitement in the press about “artificial inteligence” is focused on a technology known as “
large language models” (“LLM”)’s such as ChatGPT.
Large Language Models use math such as statistics and averages with big data sets to generate outputs that attempt to follow user input prompts based on probabilities. A highly publicized 2021 research paper referred to LLM’s as “stochastic parrots” while observing the technology amounts to “systems for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning.” Therefore, LLM’s do
not “think” for theselves. They are probability engines trained on big (huge) dictionaries of data.
Next time you get in to a debate with a liberal about “artificial intelligence”, now you can confidently wield the terms “
Large Language Models” and “
stochastic parrots” to quickly bring them back to reality by shining truth on where the “AI” industry stands in its first moment of evolution.
They are not expecting most conservatives to understand these concepts, but we should, as we should continue to cautiously study and map out developments in this evolving industry, being mindful of the implications. -JP
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