alt Hacker NewsThen that experiment is even more interesting, and should be done.
My own prediction is that the LLMs would totally fail at connecting the dots, but a small group of very smart humans can.
Things don't happen all of a sudden, but they also don't happen everywhere. Most people in most parts of the world would never connect the dots. Scientific curiosity is something valuable and fragile, that we just take for granted.
One of the reasons they don’t happen everywhere is because there are just a few places at any given point in time where there are enough well connected and educated individuals who are in a position to even see all the dots let alone connect them. This doesn’t discount the achievement of an LLM also manages to, but I think it’s important to recognise that having enough giants in sight is an important prerequisite to standing on their shoulders