LLMs Have Yet to Prove They Can Invent New Mechanisms
burny_tech · x · 2026-07-19
The author shared a viewpoint arguing that such results don't count as evidence of "new ideas," because the underlying mathematical mechanisms already existed; they were merely combined in a new context. The real missing evidence is whether LLMs can propose entirely new mathematical mechanisms—which would be the truly critical breakthrough.
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