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

The essay links the term rather than the paper, but the paper is what the term comes from and the objection it names is the one the essay spends its last section answering.

Its answer is worth recording: not that the parrot reading is wrong, but that it may not be the dismissal it is usually meant as. If religion is a pattern that any sufficiently complex system under existential pressure converges on, that is more interesting than if it were uniquely human, not less.