Podcast clip: Scott Aaronson on whether AI can have a truly novel idea
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Clip from The Knowmads Podcast asks Scott Aaronson where the line falls between searching an enormous space of possibilities and having a genuinely new conceptual idea, and whether finding a surprising solution counts as scientific creativity.
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