Bender, Gebru and coauthors publish “Stochastic Parrots”

Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major and a coauthor writing as Shmargaret Shmitchell published “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” at the ACM FAccT conference on 3 March 2021.

Why it mattered A draft of the paper sat at the center of Gebru’s dismissal from Google, and the published version became a much-cited critique of scaling language models.