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>That's why LLMs aren't able to "solve" problems that don't have existing writeups somewhere (beyond certain problems more or less equivalent to combinatorial search). Neither can humans. We create by analogy; "thinking outside the box" just means making less obvious (but still valid) analogies. >Or produce text useful beyond the mild amusement level (or for spam and/or research fraud -- at which it of course excels…
Neither can humans. We create by analogy; This seems to be at (very, very) best unsubstantiated; most likely an insufficient explanation of how humans create. People are using LLMs very effectively for writing news reports, opinion articles, ... Well, we certainly differ in our assessments on that. Literally everything I've seen in the first two categories is complete garbage. In the sense of being either patently un…
You are assuming that you are aware of the origin of everything you read. I suppose that's possible, but unlikely. At this point the use of generative AI is widespread enough that it's likely that you've read material that you were not aware was AI generated, at least in draft form.