HN discussion: can AI produce new results independently?
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A Hacker News user posts asking: can anyone name a genuinely novel result produced entirely independently by AI. The poster says that two years on, no such case has been found; their observation is that the cases seen so far either require humans to first discover a new direction, or merely aggregate scattered data that had never been connected before. The post received 22 points and 42 comments. The poster's judgment is a personal observation, and the report does not provide a verifiable case of an independent result.
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An Ask HN post asks whether, two years into the current AI wave, anyone can name something genuinely new that an AI did entirely by itself. The poster says everything they have seen still involves a human identifying the new thing, or the model merely aggregating existing data from disconnected sources that had never been tied together. The thread has 22 points and 42 comments.
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