Columbia CS Professor: Why LLMs Can’t Discover New Science
Definition of AGI: AGI is defined as the ability to create new science, math, or paradigms (like Einstein's relativity) that go beyond the training distribution, whereas current LLMs only refine and navigate existing knotakeawayLimits of Recursive Self-Improvement: LLMs cannot recursively self-improve to create new knowledge because their output is the inductive closure of their training data. Without external information or a new architecture,takeaway














