Those new ideas are hardly ever better than a string of words probabilistically drawn from a bag. Saying that AI can't think the same things we do betrays a kin

Those new ideas are hardly ever better than a string of words probabilistically drawn from a bag. Saying that AI can't think the same things we do betrays a kind of human exceptionalism that's been a part of AI criticism forever. The bar is always one step higher, like some kind of mathematical function that approaches infinity as capabilities improve.