[xscott]

I believe almost nobody thinks original thoughts. I never have. At best I applied an idea from one area to another, which is something AI can do.

Moreover, most novel advancements seem like they come when society is ready for them - the nearly simultaneous discovery of calculus for example.

Pick any thought of yours you truly believe is novel and do a serious literature search on the topic and adjacent fields. Ask an AI to help you with the search if necessary :-)

[mhitza]

Interesting though experiment, if you train an LLM with all available knowledge (cut-off date) before the day Einstein published/first time discussed the relativity theory, would an LLM be able to come up with that?

[xscott]

I think about that kind of thing a lot. For Special Relativity, maybe? I don't know the historical interactions between Einstein, Minkowski, and Lorentz, but my gut tells me the idea was ripe. For General Relativity, I'm less optimistic the current flavor of LLMs could make that leap.

There's so much I don't know though, and I'm certain we aren't the only two who think about it :-)

[dominotw]

what about the famous go game move that ai came up with. move that baffled experts.