Statistical parrot

Harald Lesch talks about AI language models  as “statistical parrots”. Even more worrisome are the hallucinations

“Language models are trained to predict the next word,” said Yilun Du, a researcher at MIT who was previously a research fellow at OpenAI, and one of the paper’s authors. “They are not trained to tell people they don’t know what they’re doing.”

 

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