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AI can recombine known concepts within the space of familiar dimensions, but it cannot yet operate beyond that space by defining entirely new concepts that combine many previously unseen elements.
Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026
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“AI will still be able to generate an image of a pink dog, even though it's never seen one in a train data or something like that. Right. So it can work on this hypercube, but it cannot yet work outside. It cannot yet define completely new concepts that combine lots of other things we've never seen before,”Play from 1:21:00Report a misattribution
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