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Can you clarify what you mean by "truly novel"? Novelty exists on a spectrum, and I'm curious where you're drawing the line between "not novel" and "truly novel

• caconym_ 2y ago
  I mean, has a genAI system ever shown you anything you thought was legitimately interesting, for reasons other than the (admittedly novel) fact that it came out of a computer program, that wasn't a straightforward recapitulation of its training data? As far as I can tell, genAI hasn't produced any worthwhile literature or works of art notable for any reason other than the (perhaps controversial) involvement of genAI. I am also not aware of any independent discoveries in math or science by genAI systems, nor contributions to any other academic fields, nor any noteworthy inventions. That's what I mean by 'true' novelty—it might string together words in an order that has technically never been seen before, but it evidently has no capacity to extend/extrapolate/whatever outside the bounds of its training data.