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Could rolling dice with matching phrases generate novel research ideas? (ok the metaphor is slightly off, but not a lot)
by fzeindl 2y ago
Could rolling dice with matching phrases generate novel research ideas? (ok the metaphor is slightly off, but not a lot)
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoMaybe yes. If you give it phrases from, say, the last five years' worth of published research papers, and it combines phrases at random and spits out the words, yes, in that there will be some interesting research ideas, and maybe even some that a human would not have come up with. Unfortunately, they'll be buried in a blizzard of stuff that no human would come up with, because they are totally meaningless combinations. Finding the good ones is the issue - and it's not an issue that LLMs can currently solve.