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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.

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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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.

AlphaFold would be one example: https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/

> 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".

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.