alt Hacker NewsYou forget that these models are still only interpolating between human-generated datapoints fed to them. They cannot reason beyond the data they've been given, so unless everything you want to create with AI is a synthesis of prior art, you're back to relying on the stone-age human brain that created AI in the first place.
Replies
>these models are still only interpolating between human-generated datapoints fed to them. They cannot reason beyond the data they've been given
Are you sure that humans can?
Didn't a SOTA recently solved a mathematical theorem, one escaping mathematicians for 80 years?
Maybe a human "novel" invention is just a good interpolating from the datapoints (knowledge) fed to the human.
Your phrasing ("you forget") implies this is a fact and common knowledge, while in fact there's little reason to think that's true.
Do you know if anyone has trained, say, a pre-2017 model and tried to get it to come up with Attention Is All You Need? If it did, would you say that was only because it's a synthesis of prior art? If so, what isn't?
Not all training data is human generated, and it's also not clear that being ridiculously good at interpolating between data points (whatever that means) will not lead to superhuman capabilities.