> Depends on your definition of "truly" new since any idea could be argued to be a mix of all past ideas.
My personal feeling when I engage in these conversations is that we humans have a cognitive bias to ascribe a human remixing of an old idea to intelligence, but an AI-model remixing of an old idea as lookup.
Indeed, basically every revolutionary idea is a mix of past ideas if you look closely enough. AI is a great example. To the 'lay person' AI is novel! It's new. It can talk to you! It's amazing. But for people who've been in this field for a while, it's an incremental improvement over linear algebra, topology, functional spaces, etc.
My personal feeling when I engage in these conversations is that we humans have a cognitive bias to ascribe a human remixing of an old idea to intelligence, but an AI-model remixing of an old idea as lookup.
Indeed, basically every revolutionary idea is a mix of past ideas if you look closely enough. AI is a great example. To the 'lay person' AI is novel! It's new. It can talk to you! It's amazing. But for people who've been in this field for a while, it's an incremental improvement over linear algebra, topology, functional spaces, etc.