MIT Researchers Named Their Project After a Paper They Don’t Seem to Have Read

A few days ago, I came across the paper “Demoing Stochastic Parrot: A Candid AI Cohabitant” by Chang et al. This paper—published by MIT researchers at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in April of this year—presents its authors’ work on a physically embodied “AI cohabitant” that they call a “stochastic parrot”. It begins with the following passage: