I Think, Therefore I Chat?

This brilliantly sums up my lack of wow at the Invasion of the Chatbots.

Per Engzell
@per@sciences.social
Just learned that “stochastic parroting” is the technical term for what ChatGPT does, which makes so much more sense than A
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@per@sciences.social/109533545113566395

[edited to add:]

Here’s the discussion out of which the phrase arose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33841672

It’s more narrowly directed at the chatbots’ inability to deal with actual fact and how it generates plausible-looking errors to cover the nakedness of its ignorance. Some call it hallucination, some confabulation; stochastic parroting was another suggestion.

About JE

James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.
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