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Henry Shevlin

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Boden’s creativity framework is a useful starting point here. LLMs can do combinatorial and exploratory. Less clear on transformational.

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@Hesamation

Jun 21

“LLMs CAN’T COME UP WITH NEW IDEAS.”

new ideas aren’t out of distribution. they come from recombination, abstraction, analogy, and search.

the Wright brothers saw birds, bicycles, wings, engines, and then combined them into an airplane.

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Jun 21

isn't transformational just iterated combinatorial and exploratory with the intermediate steps erased?

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@Hesamation

Jun 21

great one 👌🏻<br>simply dismissing LLM creativity with the out of distribution angle is super simplifying the real discourse

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@catpoopburglar

Jun 21

it isn’t demonstrated that these are actually different types of creativity

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