Comment by ben_w
5 hours ago
> Human ingenuity is creative by definition, that's where the concept arises
Sure, but until we can turn that tautology into something more rigorous, we can't tell if the thing humans do is more or less than what some arbitrary non-human (machine, animal, or eventually perhaps alien) does.
Its not a logical tautology, we just don't have other examples. We know that even humans have to clear a well defined bar to synthesize new information. The challenge is actually proving that the LLM isn't merely surfacing obscure data. The mechanism is interesting, but not actually necessary for this exercise.