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		dimgl 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to th... What are “parrot people”? And what do you mean by “doomers are probably wrong?”

moozilla 11 months ago [–]

OP is likely referring to people who call LLMs "stochastic parrots" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot), and by "doomers" (not boomers) they likely mean AI safetyists like Eliezer Yudkowsky or Pause AI (https://pauseai.info/).

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