[tudorw]

In my experience, it can certainly be coaxed into discussing novel concepts that transcend existing knowledge. I'm having fun getting it to explain what a hybrid of a Nelson Enfilade data structure combined with a tensegrity data structure is and if that system is novel and brings any benefits, very interesting and novel afaik.

[barrkel]

It seems like every time someone says that it's doing something novel, they present an example of interpolation between existing concepts.

This is useful, but the source of novelty here is the prompt; the rest is the work of interpolation.

This is all very reminiscent of image generation. There too, novelty is limited to interpolation.

[tudorw]

yes, but isn't that in itself novel, what is it that you want the system to do?