{"id":22155,"date":"2023-05-31T15:38:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T13:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=22155"},"modified":"2023-06-04T09:06:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T07:06:47","slug":"statistical-parrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2023\/05\/statistical-parrot\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistical parrot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harald Lesch talks about AI language models \u00a0as \u201cstatistical parrots\u201d. Even more worrisome are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/05\/30\/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-bard-trustworthy\/?utm_source=tldrai\">hallucinations<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLanguage models are trained to predict the next word,\u201d said Yilun Du, a researcher at MIT who was previously a research fellow at OpenAI, and one of the paper\u2019s authors. \u201cThey are not trained to tell people they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harald Lesch talks about AI language models \u00a0as \u201cstatistical parrots\u201d. Even more worrisome are the hallucinations \u201cLanguage models are trained to predict the next word,\u201d said Yilun Du, a researcher at MIT who was previously a research fellow at OpenAI, and one of the paper\u2019s authors. \u201cThey are not trained to tell people they don\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2023\/05\/statistical-parrot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Statistical parrot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[3358],"class_list":["post-22155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-computer-software","tag-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22161,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22155\/revisions\/22161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}