Schmidhuber Says LLMs Lack True Creativity, Citing His Own Fun Theory

An Oxford paper argues LLMs are mathematically incapable of true novelty, being backward-looking probabilistic machines. Schmidhuber echoed this, saying current LLMs lack real creativity because they have not implemented his 2008 Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity.

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