HN Asks: Has AI Produced Anything Truly New on Its Own?

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A Hacker News user asks the community to name something genuinely new that an AI system has accomplished entirely by itself. The poster notes that after two years of AI development, they have not yet encountered such an example. In their view, apparent discoveries usually depend on a human identifying the novel element. Alternatively, the models appear to be merely combining existing data from separate sources that had never been connected. The post drew 4 points and 7 comments at the time it was captured.

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