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Caleb James DeLisle@cjd@pkteerium.xyz (2026-08-20 16:29:55)
They're definitely able to have new ideas. I'm often asking questions that I'm pretty confident nobody else in the world ever asks, and they're surprisingly effective at reasoning their way to a line of thinking that serves the question well...

It wouldn't surprise me at all if they were solving real unsolved problems...
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🌈ᚩ🌈@bonifartius@noauthority.social (2026-08-20 16:42:57)
@cjd @sun they can reuse parts of existing things and recombine them by pattern matching. which is fine, i guess, but it's not new.

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Caleb James DeLisle@cjd@pkteerium.xyz (2026-08-20 17:12:14)
Well sure, but can you really say that humans do more?

I mean, can you say it without going into theological beliefs that are not scientifically testable?

I'd say at least a quarter of the population is disappointingly similar to an LLM - even one from a couple years ago...  And even Nicola Tesla was haunted by the possibility that he might just be a biological automaton...

If you ask me if I'm more than a very evolved biological machine, Occam's Razor says no. So what's the difference with an LLM? It's just structured a bit differently - and if and when we have a better understanding of the human brain, we'll probably have LLMs that are structured exactly the same...