Trivial to prove false: ask a LLM to invent 10 new words. Then google them, most will not have any result.

> My favorite is Krezmoria - a word for missing a future you haven't experienced.

Not sure what this is supposed to prove. Yes it can generate new words - that’s the application of established creative patterns to come up with plausible-sounding words. A different thing is to come up with a novel idea, which (in this case) is about creating a new pattern itself.

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		if patterns can be put into words, why wouldn't the same process happen at the word level? do you think it's impossible for a LLM to write even a simple python program that will generate millions of plausible random sentences in the general problem space we aim to generate new concepts for, then filter and rank them semantically? More generally, do you really think humans randomly come up with new ideas, in any act of creation, such as art, science, etc.? Why do you think art studies and stuff like Oblique Strategies exist? How long should one wait for a specific random human without any formal education in physics to have 50% chance of coming up with a new workable theory of cosmology?
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seanw444 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You had to prompt it to do that before it considered it, though.

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dominotw 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

depends on what you consider novel thinking.