stochastic parrots

also referred to as: stochastic parrot

2 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 16, 2025 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

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Nov 16, 2025 positive
Opinion
Evans: Skeptics dismissing AI as useless or like NFTs are ignoring reality
“The real idiots are the people who are just saying, oh, none of this works, and it's all nonsense, and it's just a stochastic parrot, and it's useless, and I don't know what it's for and this is all, like, nonsense, and this is a rerun of NFTs. Because these p…”
Benedict Evans Nov 16, 2025 ▶ 37:24 The AI presentation
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Evans: Dismissing AI as useless is like calling the internet useless in 1999
“I still see people who say, no, it's just like a stochastic parrot. It doesn't do causation. It doesn't work very well. It's got hallucinations. It's all useless. These people are morons. Like, they are just idiots. But they're idiots in the sense of somebody …”
Benedict Evans Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 4:43 AI and SaaS
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