[martinpw]

> what actually happened was chatGPT was referencing papers that basically went unread from lesser famous labs/researchers

Which is actually huge. Reviewing and surfacing all the relevant research out there that we are just not aware of would likely have at least as much impact as some truly novel thing that it can come up with.

[DennisP]

Maybe we should think of current AIs as not so much artificial intelligence, as collective intelligence. Which itself can be extremely valuable.

[melagonster]

No, this is not permitted. Until today, the world agreed that the product always belongs to the creator or user of LLMs.

[xigoi]

It turns out that if you use a fancy search engine to search instead of pretending that it’s intelligent, it will actually be good at its job. Who would have guessed?