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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Conference paper

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Primary research

Year

2021

DOI

10.1145/3442188.3445922

Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922

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philosophy

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• 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.

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