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Comment by willy_k

10 hours ago

Language reflects thought. LLMs are a search function over text, text that reflects previous thought; they cannot create.

> they cannot create

Every single day we have new and wondrous examples of the things LLMs have created.

Clearly we are using very different definitions of the word.

  • Synthesize != create. A new combination of existing things is different from a new thing

    • Music is combined notes. Stories are combined words. Newton combined existing mathematics to produce calculus.

      I'm wondering if you can name anything that counts as a "creation" under your definition?

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