Machines may reach ideas strictly better than humans', argues researcher on AI creativity
SoloGen · x · 2026-11-09
SoloGen argues there's no intrinsic limitation preventing machines from generating ideas strictly better than humans': if a machine can explore language space and reason about where it is in that space, it can reach points considered new and significant to us. The author admits mixed feelings about this likely possibility, and further imagines machines creating and moving into spaces even more abstract than natural languages.
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