English Explanatory Dictionary

stochastic parrot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A language model that uses artificial intelligence to generate seemingly coherent or contextually relevant text but does not truly understand the meaning of the language it is processing

Word forms

stochastic parrot stochastic parrots

Etymology

Coined by American linguist Emily M. Bender in 2021 as a reminder of the limitations of language models, see quotations.

Related words

verisimilitude
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