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I never personally expected anything close to neologism out of LLMs, not sure whether that was a common expectation. LLMs would have to completely go outside t

I never personally expected anything close to neologism out of LLMs, not sure whether that was a common expectation. LLMs would have to completely go outside the bounds of how they were designed to work for that to happen. They're prediction engines. They could absolutely create a novel idea when predicting what a person might say, but LLMs have no way of working through the logic behind the idea or modelling reality to see if the idea might work. You could task an LLM to design a thousand novel gene therapies or something similar, but at the end of the day humans would have to sift through testing or logically invalidating each option generated. Until that step is automated and paired with an LLM, and almost certainly other structures along the way, it will never be artificial intelligence.

tivert 2y ago
> I never personally expected anything close to neologism out of LLMs, not sure whether that was a common expectation. You just described how LLMs have not "nailed it" at being an "analog for the language center of a brain." Creating neologisms is something our language centers do. > They could absolutely create a novel idea when predicting what a person might say, but LLMs have no way of working through the logic behind the idea or modelling reality to see if the idea might work.... but at the end of the day humans would have to sift through testing or logically invalidating each option generated. That's not too different from a monkey at a typewriter.