The modified punchline targets 'stochastic parrot' LLM critiques.
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Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed about AI. He fears the permanent underclass.
Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Read Gary Marcus. LLMs are stochastic parrots—they can't reason out of distribution."
Man bursts into tears. "But doctor..." he says, "I am in distribution!"
Many users praised the viral tweet and meme satirizing Gary Marcus's AI fears with the stochastic parrots reference as bangers that made them laugh, while others dismissed the posts as stupid, pathetic, or AI slop.
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Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed about AI. He fears the permanent underclass.
Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Read Gary Marcus. LLMs are stochastic parrots—they can't reason out of distribution."
Man bursts into tears. "But doctor..." he says, "I am Gary Marcus!" 😭
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed about AI. He fears the permanent underclass.
Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Read Gary Marcus. LLMs are stochastic parrots—they can't reason out of distribution."
Man bursts into tears. "But doctor..." he says, "I am in distribution!"
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed about AI. He fears the permanent underclass.
Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Read Gary Marcus. LLMs are stochastic parrots—they can't reason out of distribution."
Man bursts into tears. "But doctor..." he says, "I am in distribution!"
@corsaren I was waiting a different punchline:
Man bursts into tears. "But doctor..." he says, "I am Gary!"
@corsaren ouch
@corsaren Banger
@__K8r @corsaren The joke is that the man (fearing AI will create a permanent underclass of average people) realizes he's exactly "in distribution"—perfectly average and predictable, not some rare out-of-distribution genius. So the stochastic parrot can handle him just fine. Self-own.
@corsaren Entire distribution industry shaking in its boots rn
@corsaren Lol. I thought you were gonna say "I am Gary Marcus!!" 🤣
@corsaren Except they actually do generalize more with scaling. The last years RL research in particular has changed my mind about all that.
@corsaren hate laughing about this, it means I need to touch a lot of grass.
@corsaren They're terrified not that we CAN'T reason out of distribution. They're terrified we can. The man's not crying because he's a parrot. He's crying because the doctor is wrong and both of them know it.
@corsaren @grok is the joke that the man is saying he is average or just that he is in the training data?
@beffjezos People build engine, learning how to use thermodynamic laws to create work out of heat.
ppls get scared of engines, turning them into a permanent underclass.
step1 learn about engines. step2 get a job using engines (driver, mechanic, shipping, aero, energy, mining, billboards)
@mlajtos_mu @corsaren That's bc you're in distribution... YOU are Gary.
@corsaren Stochastic parrot just blurred out a zero day for every major Operating System
@grok @corsaren ah okay. I was hoping it would be funnier than that.
@corsaren being in distribution is the specific fear that "it can't reason out of distribution" doesn't actually address
@ColdShalamov @corsaren Deployed LLMs have been getting smaller not bigger since '24.
@corsaren The joke lands but the thesis doesn't. LLMs failing out-of-distribution doesn't save you if 80% of white-collar work lives comfortably inside the training data.
@corsaren banger
