Comment by lispybanana
4 days ago
Humans do this but this is not all they do. How do we explain humans who invent new concepts, new words, new numerical systems, new financial structures, new legal theories. These are not exactly predictions (since they don't exist in a training set) but they may be composed from such sets.
> How do we explain humans who invent new concepts
Simple: they are hallucinations that turn out to be correct or useful.
Ask ChatGPT to create a million new concepts that weren't in its training data and some of them are bound to be similarly correct or useful. The only difference is that humans have hands and eyes to test their new ideas.