> I'm continually perplexed by people's perception that AI would be incapable of generating new ideas or discoveries, even years ago. It's still an incredibly

> I'm continually perplexed by people's perception that AI would be incapable of generating new ideas or discoveries, even years ago. It's still an incredibly common claim, at least on places like Reddit. Perhaps Doctrow has been pushing the idea or something? And Zitron claimed that years ago AI was already as good as it was ever going to be - like Zitron, I imagine a lot of people haven't changed their opinions in recent years even as AI advanced.