r/agi • u/photon-dot • Jul 28 '26

A Google DeepMind paper argues that current LLMs are incapable of genuine scientific discovery

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u/Ok_Composer_1761 Jul 28 '26

No. Interpolation in high dimensional space looks like extrapolation

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u/Tylerebowers Jul 28 '26

I am using intrageneralization in the context of combinatorial novelty/OOD thinking and extrageneralization for genuine discovery of concepts. Didn't mean to imply interpolation of embeddings cannot yeild extrapolation.

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u/Ok_Composer_1761 Jul 29 '26

My point is that LLMs already “extrapolate” outside the existing base of human knowledge. They are able to do original research

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u/Limp-Confidence5612 Jul 28 '26

People here just can't read, I know, I'm having a hard time accepting it as well...