logoalt Hacker News

rvnxyesterday at 8:23 PM3 repliesview on HN

I get it understand either. "This is just a stochastic parrot".

I suppose these people are lying so that they can justify their well-paid job, or they just don't know how to use LLMs or to prompt GenAI tools.


Replies

camel_gopheryesterday at 8:53 PM

It’s a probabilistic parrot

show 1 reply
jazzyjacksonyesterday at 8:35 PM

I’ll explain it: these tools are non-deterministic and people have different experiences with them. For a few people every interaction is totally fumbled and they think the cheerleaders of gen AI must be lying, for others the chatbot hits one home run after another and lets them add microcontrollers to their CAN bus. When these people’s good luck runs out and they start getting mixed results like the average user, they assert the service must have been down graded

show 2 replies
ameliusyesterday at 11:43 PM

I still would like to hear a public apology from the stochastic parrot crowd for their deceptive framing. Or maybe it was just incompetence.