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by pclmulqdq 409 days ago
"To the extent it's measurable" is very load-bearing in the semantics here. A lot of "creativity" is very hard to measure.
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I agree, and I think most people would say the current models would rank low on creativity metrics however we define them. But to the main point, I don’t see how the quality we call creativity is unique to biological computing machines vs electronic computing machines. Maybe one day we’ll conclusively declare creativity to be a human trait only, but in 2025 that is not a closed question - however it is measured.
We were talking about LLM here, not computing machines in general. LLM are trained to mimic not to produce novel things, so a person can easily think LLM wont get creative even though some computer program in the future could.
> LLM are trained to mimic not to produce novel things

Which LLM? That’s not the purpose of training for any model that I know of.

Training LLMs is literally finding sets of numbers that make them better at mimicking human language.