Oxford Scholars Argue LLMs Mathematically Cannot Truly Invent

Oxford scholars Teppo Felin and Matthias Holweg argue in a new paper that LLMs, trained to predict the next word, can never truly invent, since breakthroughs often start from ideas the existing data deems wrong.

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