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I was just saying that it's fine if you don't accept my premise, but that doesn't change the reality of the premise.

The International Math Olympiad qualifies as solving original problems, for example. If you disagree, that's a case you have to make. Transformer models are unquestionably better at math than I am. They are also better at composition, and will soon be better at programming if they aren't already.

Every time a magazine editor is fooled by AI slop, every time an entire subreddit loses the Turing test to somebody's ethically-questionable 'experiment', every time an AI-rendered image wins a contest meant for human artists -- those are original works.

Heck, looking at my Spotify playlist, I'd be amazed if I haven't already been fooled by AI-composed music. If it hasn't happened yet, it will probably happen next week, or maybe next year. Certainly within the next five years.





> The International Math Olympiad qualifies as solving original problems, for example. If you disagree, that's a case you have to make. Transformer models are unquestionably better at math than I am. They are also better at composition, and will soon be better at programming if they aren't already.

No, it does not. You're just telling me you've never seen what these problems are like.

> Every time a magazine editor is fooled by AI slop, every time an entire subreddit loses the Turing test to somebody's ethically-questionable 'experiment', every time an AI-rendered image wins a contest meant for human artists -- those are original works.

That's such an absurd logical leap. If you plagiarize a paper and it fools your English teacher, you did not produce an original work. You fooled someone.

> Heck, looking at my Spotify playlist, I'd be amazed if I haven't already been fooled by AI-composed music.

Who knows, but you've already demonstrated that you're easy to fool, since you've bought all the AI hype and seem to be unwilling to accept that an AI CEO or a politician would lie to you.

> If it hasn't happened yet, it will probably happen next week, or maybe next year. Certainly within the next five years.

I can pull numbers out of my ass too, watch! 5, 18, 33, 1, 556. Impressed? But jokes aside, guesses about the future are not evidence, especially when they're based on nothing but your own misguided gut feeling.




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