I would agree that much more than we're usually ready to admit to ourselves is second-hand, but saying everything is going too far. Inventions and discoveries are happening all the time, at all scales.
Inventions and discoveries are basically a very advanced form of pattern recognition - seeing "interesting" regularities in some particular input where no-one has spotted them before.
And LLMs are capable of making discoveries in this sense, if you feed them data and ask to spot the regularities. They're not particularly good at it, but that's a different question from whether they're able to do it in principle.
pegasus|2 years ago
int_19h|2 years ago
And LLMs are capable of making discoveries in this sense, if you feed them data and ask to spot the regularities. They're not particularly good at it, but that's a different question from whether they're able to do it in principle.