About whether LLMs only recombine human work or can genuinely innovate.
Has this happened?
Yes 56 (41%)Not sure 36 (26%)No 44 (32%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether LLMs only recombine human work or can genuinely innovate.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
The line is the invention of actual, new, knowledge. LLMs have so far failed to do that. LLMs have not made any significant new discovery in any field. See Dwarkesh's Question: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/dw...
If AI was actually intelligent, it should've cured cancer by now, based on the amount of data that it was fed.