On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots¶
Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021). On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?. Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 610-623.
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Primes¶
- Grand Narrative (Metanarrative)
- Critical response: Postmodern and critical voices (Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major 2021
This sourceACM. Critiques the scaling-driven framing of large language models as not inevitable but contingent and contested; supports the claim that critical voices contest the 'AI inevitability' metanarrative as not grounded in evidence about general intelligence.
- Critical response: Postmodern and critical voices (Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major 2021
Domain-specific¶
- ELIZA Effect
- The pattern has recurred at scale with each generation of conversational technology — ELIZA, PARRY, commercial chatbots, voice assistants, Replika, large language models — with the magnitude of the attributed understanding tracking the fluency of the output, not the actual cognitive complexity of the underlying mechanism
This sourceLanguage-model output that readers take as meaningful and intentional because of their own predisposition to interpret fluent text, with coherence 'in the eye of the beholder'.
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- The pattern has recurred at scale with each generation of conversational technology — ELIZA, PARRY, commercial chatbots, voice assistants, Replika, large language models — with the magnitude of the attributed understanding tracking the fluency of the output, not the actual cognitive complexity of the underlying mechanism
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