Douglas MacKevettCan AI produce something truly creative and original?
While we have all been amazed by GAI text, image and/or video at some point in the last two years, the question remains: Can it really produce something truly original not predictable by its training data? The answer to this depends on a definition of emergent abilities and, thanks to this very important study by Lu et al (2024), is most probably no. In this study, the authors examined LLM outputs in over 1000 experiments and asked whether these answers …