Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu has re-ignited the debate on whether or not AI vs Creativity with his post on ‘X’. Since AI systems are evolving day by day thanks to it’s training on complex data sets. However with the onset of advanced Artificial General Intelligence people are expecting LLM models to aid in creative tasks which occur outside the realm of AI and the data sets it as been trained on.
In a post on ‘X’ Sridhar Vembu says that “True creative work is ‘out of the training distribution’ work,” Vembu wrote. “Chess or Go engines do come up with creative moves. The foundational approach they use, Monte Carlo Tree Search, is different from how LLMs work and that may explain why LLMs don’t do too well ‘out of their training distribution’.
Training Models using games correct?
Moreover he also explained that why games like Chess using which models are trained is not correct. Since games have predefined and set rules which moves are either valid or invalid they don’t reflect the actualities of life. This resonates with the concerns of the tech community that AI LLM models will struggle to perform in tasks that require creativity since it is beyond the realm of their training.
In his post he explained the aforementioned pointer “Games have precise rules of the game, valid vs invalid moves etc. The real world is much more messy,” he noted, adding that software code shares some characteristics with games. “Software code has some of the character of games and that is one area that can look to techniques from game engines.”
Apart from this debate Sridhar Vembu was also involved in a controversy in the past week. This was due to his statement that vaccination is the dominant risk factor in “Autism”. He posted on ‘X’ to “take this analysis seriously,” adding, “There is increasing evidence that we are giving way too many vaccines to very young children. This is spreading in India too, and we are seeing a rapid increase in autism.”
