High schoolers come up with new ideas all the time. AI is just generic scenarios that are mathematical average of what you’d expect. It’s really reductionist to say people are that, betrays a certain cynicism about humanity
Those new ideas are hardly ever better than a string of words probabilistically drawn from a bag. Saying that AI can't think the same things we do betrays a kind of human exceptionalism that's been a part of AI criticism forever. The bar is always one step higher, like some kind of mathematical function that approaches infinity as capabilities improve.
So are you then saying that nothing humans do is derivative?
How many books and movies are just retelling one of a handful of original stories in a different way?
That's all ai does, it builds upon existing works just life we do.
It wrote an entire very accurate book outline for a book about langchain a tool it knew nothing about. I only fed it very basic info, not the whole docs. Clarified a few things it got wrong etc...
Many of the claims against it is that it can't do x thing that "some" group of humans can do even if it's someone many others also can't do.
I guarantee you, it can write a better proof or get closer than I ever would.
IMHO one of the things it really lacks is a purpose or drive. Without a desire and without rewards for learning shit, it'll only learn the basics it needs to formulate an answer.
Curiosity, intrigue, desire, even if we could fake that, might lead to some interesting things. Also adding senses and multi modal things.
