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⚡️🇦🇪 NEW - Nobel Prize laureate Professor Kornberg says AI lacks the creativity humans possess and uses only the knowledge it is given: "In the areas that I know, where important discoveries were made, they were contrary to all existing knowledge."

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Yes, that's true. Lots of scientific discoveries happen this way, by just combining insights that are "obvious" to different fields that don't talk to one another. And LLM's are absolutely useful for that. But this happy scenario of "synergy" isn't always the case, and lots of times the "upstart" knowledge flatly contradicts orthodoxies in the existing field. LLM's, that are trained to do things like write code efficiently, are "evolved" specifically to eliminate things that contradict orthodoxy -- that's what we call "hallucinations."