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I think the whole idea of "original insight" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Most innovative is derivative, either from observation or cross application.

I think the whole idea of "original insight" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Most innovative is derivative, either from observation or cross application. People aren't sitting in isolation chambers their whole lives and coming up with things in the absence of input. I don't know why people think a model would have to manifest a theory absence of input.

morsecodist 2y ago
> I think the whole idea of "original insight" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. This is by biggest issue with AI conversations. Terms like "original insight" are just not rigorous enough to have a meaningful discussion about. Any example an LLM produces can be said to be not original enough and conversely you could imagine trivial types of originality that simple algorithms could simulate (i.e. speculate on which existing drugs could be used to treat known conditions). Given the amount of drugs and conditions you are bound to propose some original combination. People usually end up just talking past each other.