A co-author of the paper that coined this term in its title was credited as Shmargaret Shmitchell after being asked to remove her name by her employer. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this term often used to disparagingly refer to large language models. This term is a metaphor for how the randomized nature of LLM output covers up lack of true understanding of their input data.
ANSWER: stochastic parrots (The paper is “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Large Language Models be Too Big?”)
[10e] Margaret Mitchell and Timnit Gebru co-led this company's Ethical AI team before they were fired following the publication of “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots.” This company has plowed ahead with LLM research to power its Gemini model.
ANSWER: Google [accept Alphabet]
[10h] One of the models criticized as “stochastic parrots” is this Google-produced transformer model used to parse Google search queries. This model was the first to use context from both preceding and following words to gain understanding of a word’s meaning.
ANSWER: BERT [accept Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers]
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