{"id":84931,"date":"2023-04-02T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=84931"},"modified":"2023-04-02T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T16:02:26","slug":"aaronson-if-llms-are-mere-stochastic-parrots-and-if-further-scaling-will-do-nothing-to-alleviate-their-parroticity-there-is-no-reason-whatsoeve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=84931","title":{"rendered":"Aaronson: \u201cIf LLMs are mere \u201cstochastic parrots,\u201d and if further scaling will do nothing to alleviate their parroticity\u201d \u2026 \u201cthere is no reason whatsoever to pause the scaling of Large Language Models\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=7188\">Link<\/a>. Obvious but worth pointing out. If you think LLMs are just nonsense generators then development might as well proceed at full speed. (I\u2019m pro-pause because I think they are far more than that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link. Obvious but worth pointing out. If you think LLMs are just nonsense generators then development might as well proceed at full speed. (I\u2019m pro-pause because I think they are far more than that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-84931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-pinboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84932,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84931\/revisions\/84932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}