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Jack Clark @jackclarkSF · 2h
"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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fwiw it seems like critics of stochastic parrots talk about stochastic parrots a lot more than the authors of stochastic parrots. it seems to live rent free in AI people's minds, so in that sense i agree it's an effective concept. but if it's so wrong why not ignore it?
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Jack Clark @jackclarkSF · 2h
because I constantly run into people who discount the capabilities of AI systems on the basis that they're stochastic parrots or next-token predictors, and the use of this frame causes people to materially underestimate what AI systems can/can't do
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you run into really smart people who are broadly incapable of seeing contemporary AI systems for what they are, which means they don't allocate their prodigious capabilities to helping civilization deal with AI progress and instead set on the sidelines. it's a big waste
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A four-post thread on X: Jack Clark calls the 'stochastic parrot' frame a mimetically-fit cognitive virus, a reply questions why critics of the concept talk about it so much, and Clark replies that the frame leads people to underestimate AI capabilities, followed by a repost of his further post about smart people sitting on the sidelines.

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Jack Clark @jackclarkSF · 3h
Rough eras of recent AI progress in terms of what research community is collectively hillclimbing on:
2018-2022: Basic capabilities (summarizing, coding, etc)
2022-2026: Norm & time coherence (rlhf/CAI, longer context, agents)
2026 - ?2028?: scientific intuition / independence
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Tweet from Jack Clark (Anthropic co-founder) sketching a timeline of rough eras of AI research progress, from basic capabilities (2018-2022) to norm/time coherence via RLHF/CAI and agents (2022-2026) to a projected era of scientific intuition/independence starting 2026.

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Adrien Ecoffet @AdrienLE

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Adrien Ecoffet (@AdrienLE): Seems right. (as a reminder, if you think OpenAI disagrees, our stated estimate is that automated AI research will be developed around March 2028) > QUOTED: Jack Clark (@jackclarkSF) · May 4 > I've spent the past few weeks reading 100s of public data sources about AI development. I now believe that recursive self-improvement has a 60% chance of happening by the end of 2028. In other words, AI systems might soon be capable of building themselves. 9:02 PM · May 4, 2026 · 36.4K Views 14 replies, 29 reposts, 237 likes, 53 bookmarks Adrien Ecoffet (@AdrienLE) · May 4: youtu.be/ngDCxlZcecw?si... 8 likes, 2K views Chris (@chatgpt21) · May 4: For clarification we have been debating a little. Do you mean a system that can act as one researcher or a system that can do 100% of the research end to end
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Twitter exchange between OpenAI's Adrien Ecoffet and Anthropic's Jack Clark about timelines for recursive AI self-improvement / automated AI R&D (2028 estimates). Directly relevant to Nathan's interest in AI timelines and empirical singularity tracking (cf. memory notes on Davidson/Houlden r-estimates, METR automation figures).

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Jack Clark @jackclarkSF

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↻ Emad reposted Jack Clark @jackclarkSF · Sep 10, 2025 People leaving regular companies: Time for a change! Excited for my next chapter! People leaving AI companies: I have gazed into the endless night and there are shapes out there. We must be kind to one another. I am moving on to study philosophy.
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Wry observational joke by Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark about the tendency of AI-company departures to be accompanied by portentous, quasi-mystical public statements. Light cultural commentary on the AI safety/industry milieu rather than a substantive finding.

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