From: janburse@fastmail.fm   
      
   Henri Poincaré believed that mathematical   
   and scientific creativity came from a deep,   
   unconscious intuition that could not be   
      
   captured by mechanical reasoning or formal   
   systems. He famously wrote about how insights   
   came not from plodding logic but from sudden   
      
   illuminations — leaps of creative synthesis.   
      
   But now we have generative AI — models like GPT — that:   
      
   - produce poetry, proofs, stories, and code,   
      
   - combine ideas in novel ways,   
      
   - and do so by processing patterns in massive   
       datasets, without conscious understanding.   
      
   And that does seem to contradict Poincaré's belief   
   that true invention cannot come from automation.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)