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n4r9
> The fourth level, says Altman, will be the "innovators" capable of creating new knowledge

> There are arguably examples of all five levels running here and there around the world, and there have been for many years

What are examples of AI creating new knowledge?

voxelizer
AlphaFold would be one example: https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/
n4r9
> AlphaFold ... predicts a protein’s 3D structure from its amino acid sequence.

I guess that's technically creating new knowledge but it doesn't feel "innovative".

gadilif
I think the definition of 'new' can be extended a bit to cover insights as well, and in that case we may look at insights generated by LLMs as 'new knowedge'. For the person receiving those insights generated by the AI, while they had the data, the extraction of information out of it resulted in, well, new knowledge.
OccamsMirror
I asked ChatGPT 4 to name my product idea and it gave me a pretty awesome name (a very clever portmanteau) that had zero Google results. So technically, it was something new.
cassepipe
Which makes me think : Is anything ever new ? Isn't everything a more or less clever recombination of what was already existing ?

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n4r9
That's a fair point. What will really convince me is if/when LLMs start coming up with mathematical proofs or counter-examples for open problems.
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