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Re:Understanding ChatGPT by nikodotio on Sunday March 26, 2023 @08:42AM (#35313854)
a quick google reveals that all of the words in the "new" title already exist from human producers, and this is mix and matched together.
Re:Understanding ChatGPT by scrollaway on Sunday March 26, 2023 @08:46AM (#35313871)
A quick google reveals the same of your comment. Are you an AI?
Re:Understanding ChatGPT by freehorse on Sunday March 26, 2023 @09:09AM (#35314037)
The comment answers to how GPT supposedly produces "new interesting concepts and ideas". The comment you are answering is not supposed or perceived to present anything novel. So both your argument and the comment you reply to are technically correct, neither produces any novel idea; only difference is your reply is out of place.
Re:Understanding ChatGPT by maxdoop on Sunday March 26, 2023 @10:09AM (#35314627)
What exactly is a novel idea? Is there any true “novelty” that just suddenly arises in a human brain without having prerequisite experience / knowledge?
Re:Understanding ChatGPT by freehorse on Monday March 27, 2023 @09:11AM (#35326252)
I mean, indeed most "novel ideas" are about making novel connections between existing concepts, and more rarely about creating novel concepts. However, bunching together concepts, even if in a novel way, does not necessarily constitute "novel idea" as the connections have to be in some ways meaningful and interesting, in a certain context. In the previous case, which is actually quite typical of LLMs, a "novel idea" was produced by bunching together certain terms, in a way that it looks syntactically correct and even conceptually solid in a superficial manner. But from a scientific point of view, it is non-sensical and, basically, junk. Bunching together concepts as words does not make a scientific idea or theory. This is a complex process in science, that involves different scales of argumentation, none of which is provided by LLMs. But this is as far as merely manipulating language can get one.
Re:Understanding ChatGPT by rvnx on Sunday March 26, 2023 @10:43AM (#35314961)
I'm pretty sure space-time expands according to scientific literature, doesn't it ? (this is why I picked this weird concept of a shrinking space-time)