Re:Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas?
by lostmsu on Thursday September 12, 2024 @03:43PM
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You are trivially incorrect.
LLMs (unless used in deterministic mode, which you shouldn't anyway) will eventually generate all ideas for the same reason as 1_000_000 monkeys on typewriters will eventually generate War and Peace. The question is only how soon in practice this will happen.
Well, I am nearly certain, that 1_000_000 LLMs (or rather 1_000_000 streams of generation using a few LLMs) will do better than 1_000_000 monkeys on typewriters.
The same 1_000_000 LLMs could do better than 1_000_000 average humans, but we don't know yet.
LLMs (unless used in deterministic mode, which you shouldn't anyway) will eventually generate all ideas for the same reason as 1_000_000 monkeys on typewriters will eventually generate War and Peace. The question is only how soon in practice this will happen.
Well, I am nearly certain, that 1_000_000 LLMs (or rather 1_000_000 streams of generation using a few LLMs) will do better than 1_000_000 monkeys on typewriters.
The same 1_000_000 LLMs could do better than 1_000_000 average humans, but we don't know yet.