Ask HN: Can LLMs "invent" life hacks?

The comment discusses the capability of Language Learning Models (LLMs) to generate useful new solutions. The author suggests that while LLMs can produce meaningful sentences, it is largely due to chance. The generation of millions of random sentences in a human language would inevitably result in some expressing useful new solutions.

LLMs have a higher probability of achieving this because they generate sentences that are statistically more likely to represent coherent thoughts. However, the author emphasizes that this is still a matter of chance, implying that the ability of LLMs to generate useful solutions is not necessarily indicative of their intelligence or understanding.

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Language models are capable of generating useful new solutions, but only by chance.
Generating millions of random sentences in a human language might result in some expressing useful new solutions.
Language models like LLMs have a higher chance of generating useful sentences as they generate sentences that are statistically more probable.
Despite the higher probability with LLMs, the generation of useful new solutions is still largely based on chance.

Ask HN: Can LLMs "invent" life hacks?

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