Oxford Paper Argues LLMs Mathematically Cannot Innovate
Oxford researchers Teppo Felin and Matthias Holweg argue in a paper titled "Theory Is All You Need" that LLMs are probabilistic machines looking backward at existing data and mathematically cannot produce genuine novelty or new knowledge.
2026-09-15 ~ 2026-09-17 · 2 related posts
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