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But it cannot think or mean anything, it's just a clever parrot so it's a bit weird. I guess uncanny is the word. I use it as google now, like just to search stuff that are hard to express with keywords.




> clever parrot

Is it irony that you duckspeak this term? Are you a stochastically clever monkey to avoid using the standard cliche?

The thing I find most educating about AI is that it unfortunately mimics the standard of thinking of many humans...


Try asking it a question you know has never been asked before. Is it parroting?

99% of humans are mimics, they contribute essentially zero original thought across 75 years. Mimicry is more often an ideal optimization of nature (of which an LLM is part) rather than a flaw. Most of what you'll ever want an LLM to do is to be a highly effective parrot, not an original thinker. Origination as a process is extraordinarily expensive and wasteful (see: entrepreneurial failure rates).

How often do you need original thought from an LLM versus parrot thought? The extreme majority of all use cases globally will only ever need a parrot.




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