What Douglas Hofstadter thinks about creativity

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Cognitive scientist, born in 1945, whose Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979) explored self-reference and "strange loops" as a key to minds and to artificial intelligence.

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1. 8 Jul 2023

   Our readingLarge language models do not think up original ideas; they rehash what they ingested

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   Their wordsLarge language models, although they are astoundingly virtuosic and mind-bogglingly impressive in many ways, do not think up original ideas; rather, they glibly and slickly rehash words and phrases “ingested” by them in their training phase, which draws on untold millions of web sites, books, articles, etc.

   ↗Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI (The Atlantic)theatlantic.com 2nd of 5 in this piece