Thread by @emilymbender

Ugh -- I'm seeing a lot of commentary along the lines of "'stochastic parrot' might have been an okay characterization of previous models, but GPT-4 actually is intelligent."

Spoiler alert: It's not. Also, stop being so credulous.

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(Some of this I see because it's tweeted at me, but more of it comes to me by way of the standing search I have on the phrase "stochastic parrots" and its variants. The tweets in that column have been getting progressively more toxic over the past couple of months.)

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What's particularly galling about this is that people are making these claims about a system that they don't have anywhere near full information about. Reminder that OpenAI said "for safety" they won't disclose training data, model architecture, etc.

https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1635697381244272640?s=20

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But people want to believe SO HARD that AGI is nigh.

Remember: If #GPT4 or #ChatGPT or #Bing or #Bard generated some strings that make sense, that's because you made sense of them.