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The stochastic parrot is dead (and it was killed by its own map)

For years we dismissed them as "stochastic parrots". Then we looked inside the black box. Here's what we found.

Why a cow falling in a dream made me rethink artificial intelligence

I dreamed of a cow falling off a mountain. The scene was entirely made up, yet it held together. That led me to an uncomfortable question about AI: is predicting the next word really the opposite of understanding? Maybe not, and maybe the stochastic parrot is a fair critique but not a sufficient one.