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EGregyesterday at 3:38 PM1 replyview on HN

It isn’t about training anymore. It is about harnesses.

Just look at new math proofs that will come out, as one example. Exploration vs Exploitation is a thing in AI but you seem to think that human creativity can’t be surpassed by harnesses and prompts like “generate 100 types of possible…”

You’re wrong. What you call creativity is often a manual application of a simple self-prompt that people do.

One can have a loop where AI generates new ideas, rejects some and ranks the rest, then prioritizes. Then spawns workloads and sandboxes to try out and test the most highly ranked ideas. Finally it accretes knowledge into a relational database.

Germans also underestimated USA in WW2, saying their soldiers were superior, and USA just had technology — but USA out produced tanks and machinery and won the war through sheer automation, even if its soldiers were just regular joes and not elite troops.

Back then it was mechanized divisions. Now it is mechanized intelligence.

While Stalin said: Quantity has a quality all its own.


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plucyesterday at 3:40 PM

There is no "new ideas" with AI. Claiming the opposite is a fundamental misunderstanding of the technology.

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