A new and possibly controversial perspective: In this video, I explain the sense in which generative AI trained by supervised learning is incapable of making novel discoveries. youtu.be/K5LAFEjTlBA The text of the speech: AI Creativity and Discovery Good day ladies and gentlemen. I regret that I am unable to be with you all today to engage in a back-and-forth discussion, but I am nevertheless pleased to be able to share with you, via this recording, some high-level thoughts about the current and future state of artificial intelligence, and in particular about AI’s relationship to science and mathematics, which is, as I understand it, the central focus of this meeting and of the SAIR Foundation. I would like to start with an old joke; I am sure you have heard it before. It is the one about the researcher whose work is being evaluated, and the review comes back, and says “This work is both novel and good.…