On Stochastic Parrots, commonly referred to as _AI_

Just a collection of great opinion pieces that shaped my own view of the currently overhyped generative AI. Here I will shortly outline or quote the central aspects mentioned. If any of these summaries look interesting to you, please read the original article, condensing them into a few bullet points necessarily leaves out most of the nuance and richness of the original authors thoughts.

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜

Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. (english)

This paper scientifically outlined several of the big risks that come with creating huge AI models as we currently see. It has been a while that I read it and it is too long for me to re-read now, so I will just copy a few of its section headlines here:

It was definietely worth reading and sticks in memory with its legendary metaphor of the Stochastic Parrot.

Speech by Meredith Whittaker

When she recieved the Helmut Schmidt Zukunftspreis (english)

Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

By Drew DeVault (english)

„Viele Menschen haben für Metas Profit gelitten“

By Ingo Dachwitz on netzpollitik.org (german)

How much electricity does AI consume?

By James Vincent on TheVerge (english)

These are not the same

By Tante (english)

Are "AI" systems really tools?

By Tante (english)

How AI is killing joy

By Leah Oswald (english)


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