Essay Questions Whether LLMs Can Invent Genuinely New Conceptual Frameworks
A lengthy Reddit essay argues that LLMs excel at recall, generalization, and recombining existing concepts but lack the ability to invent genuinely new representations and conceptual frameworks, questioning the ceiling of scaling-based reasoning.
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