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Re:Has Google Solved Two of AI's Oldest Problems? by kazinator on Saturday November 15, 2025 @12:27AM (#45935278)
That is not strictly true, because being able to transfer the style of Van Gogh onto an arbitrary photographic scene is novel in a sense, but it is interpolative.

Mashups are not purely derivative: the choice of what to mash up carries novelty: two (or more) representations are mashed together which hitherto have not been.

We cannot deny that something is new.

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Re:Has Google Solved Two of AI's Oldest Problems? by regularfry on Saturday November 15, 2025 @03:07AM (#45935836)
Innovation itself is frequently defined as the novel combination of pre-existing components. It's mashups all the way down.
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Re:Has Google Solved Two of AI's Oldest Problems? by BoorishBears on Saturday November 15, 2025 @03:58PM (#45940564)
I'm saying their comment is calling that not something new.

I don't agree, but by their estimation adding things together is still just using existing things.

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