Etymology

stochastic parrot

Today it means: A language model that uses artificial intelligence to generate seemingly coherent or contextually relevant text but does not truly understand the meaning of the language it is processing Full definition →

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The story

Coined by American linguist Emily M. Bender in 2021 as a reminder of the limitations of language models, see quotations.

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