what would you consider a test of the ability to create new knowledge? I don't think there exists a meaningful distinction here. If I give an AI the same inform

what would you consider a test of the ability to create new knowledge? I don't think there exists a meaningful distinction here. If I give an AI the same information astronomers had to figure out the big bang conclusion, it would probably be able to figure it out. They "induced" from a bunch of data points that there was one likely explanation. Similarly if I gave it a phenomena I wanted to know about it could propose experiements to run to understand that thing. taking independant action in the world is indeed beyond the limits of chatgpt on it's own, but its not hard to build systems relying heavily on chatgpt to do that, a simple loop calling it with information from sensors and a prompt to experiment with outputs is enough to get some kind of agent. It can process any information, and given more power it can draw ever-higher inferences from that information. This is analogous to a turing machine, something that can eventually get anywhere, but it will take an arbitrarily long time to do it. I think of it kinda like the CPU in a Von Neumann architecture. A cpu on it's own doesn't do much of anything unless you tell it to. We have that part solved, we just need to settle on a good structure for repeatedly querying it.