Posts by leeloo@chaosfem.tw
 (DIR) Post #B3ixuWZNS0sjHgPaYy by leeloo@chaosfem.tw
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       As a software developer who took an elective in neural networks - when people call LLMs stochastic parrots, that's not criticism of their results.It's literally a description of how they work.The so-called training data is used to build a huge database of words and the probability of them fitting together.Stochastic because the whole thing is statistics.Parrot because the answer is just repeating the most probable word combinations from its training dataset.Calling an LLM a stochastic parrot is lile calling a car a motorised vehicle with wheels. It doesn't say anything about cars being good or bad. It does, however, take away the magic. So if you feel a need to defend AI when you hear the term stochastic parrot, consider that you may have elevated them to a god-like status, and that's why you go on the defense when the magic is dispelled.
       
 (DIR) Post #B42qIfGBsUGYiQdTwO by leeloo@chaosfem.tw
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       @EUCommissionWhen I heard the name of the first one, the first I thought of was the German coffee brand. According to Wikipedia it IS named after her, so I'd say she isn't completely forgotten.But to be clear, she is the exception on the list. And I'm sure there are a ton of other forgotten names that could go on the list too.(The name Sobel also seems familiar, but I fon't know if that was the same Sobel).