[slim]

  LLMs are really only capable of combining different things into output

what makes believe humans can do more than this ?

it's a real question. I've seen a lot of people stating that the human mind "is more than this" as if it was obvious

[Jtarii]

I would say the inherently chaotic and continuous nature of the human brain can create novelty in a fundamentally different way than LLMs can.

Like a human can reach into the chaos of their own emotions and pull something unique out. There is some layer of the human experience where ideas can ferment and change based on all your memories is weird ways, and LLMs completely lack this, which makes things LLMs create very blunt and obvious. Like there is no nuance to anything they do.

[gue-ni]

Well since human culture has developed from very limited stone age culture into what we have today, we must conclude that at least _some_ people are capable of generating something that is genuinely new.