IEEE Spectrum - AI
· Generative Media
Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on “Stochastic Parrots”
In March 2021, a group of four linguists and computer scientists published their now legendary paper “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜” The paper received significant attention at the time (in part because Google fired two of the authors, Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, shortl