AI Is a Thesaurus-Powered Parrot That Thinks It's God

Bender coined the phrase stochastic parrots for systems that spit out fluent text by pure statistical mimicry, comprehension strictly optional and usually absent, and she came back to answer the questions the hype machine keeps skipping on purpose. Right at the top sits the canyon between sounding confident and knowing one single goddamn thing, two qualities your f*ucking AI’s marketing department works double shifts to smear into one expensive, glowing blur. Bender’s FUQ, on Medium.