“Researchers Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru, and others suggest describing the process and models as "stochastic parroting". Parrot, because it only repeats what was fed to it without any understanding of the meaning, and stochastic, because the process itself is random. "The created text is not based on a communicative intention, a model of the world, or a model of the reader's mental state," they wrote in an article from 2021 and explain that what they envision is actually a system for randomly combining sequences of linguistic forms, "according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot."”
Meaningless words: Dangerous conversations with ChatGPT | CTech
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Meaningless words: Dangerous conversations with ChatGPT | CTech
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/vhhk7xrni
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