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Comment by eru

14 hours ago

Re-deriving the start of the art cleanly with fewer postulates is good!

And so I'm skeptical of TFA's claim that "creativity _isn't [just]_ compression"

Imho there's also a clean argument against the existence of LLM-understanding: chatbots have been unable to summarize to experts (see my reply to you in the other thread) their own findings.

Even after prolonged interrogation. They were unable to _compress_ their own findings. Thus they might not actually understand what they have actually done. (They might barely pass an oral thesis defense)

(One may object-- that proofs aren't data that can be "compressed". But then doesn't the process of abduction generalise the very idea of data? to.. ?)

  • I'm not sure, many chat bots summarise just fine as far as I can tell, on subjects I know a lot about.