AI as Agency Without Intelligence
on ChatGPT, Large Language Models, and Other Generative Models
“"Given the enormous successes and equally broad limitations, some people have compared LLMs to stochastic parrots that repeat texts without understanding anything (Bender et al., 2021). The analogy helps, but only partially, not only because parrots have an intelligence of their own that would be the envy of any AI but, above all, because LLMs synthesise texts in new ways, restructuring the contents on which they have been trained, not providing simple repetitions or juxtapositions.”
Editorial, Published: 10 March 2023
AI as Agency Without Intelligence: on ChatGPT, Large Language Models, and Other Generative Models
Philosophy & Technology volume 36, Article number: 15 (2023) Cite this article