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by idiotsecant 1206 days ago
What does it mean to say that it can't invent anything? If, for example, I ask it to make a new poem with no line previously recorded in the english language it will do so. If I google that poem to test it's originality I won't find a match. It seems to me it just made something novel, right?
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When humans write new literature, or design new games, are we simply remixing elements of language and game mechanics that we've seen before, or is there something more going on?
Who else's experiences can we pull from but our own? It can be anything else.