In GenAI, as far as I know, 'memorisation' stands for regenerating source material (e.g. asking for 'that poem that compares a loved one to a summer's day' and get a perfect rendering of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 as a result (or verbatim NYT articles in a more negative example). For creativity, see the other elements in this thread.
I must say that some of these reactions focus on how 'precisely correct' the statement is.
There are whiffs of 'bewitchment by language' here :-)
totally not the same thing
1) useful memorisation refers to memorizing the essence of something, not its verbatim expression
2) creativity requires generalization, genAI isn't capable of that, it's easily demonstrated with the inability to learn simple arithmetic
Gerben Wierda talks about how it is, and you talk about how it should be :-)
In GenAI, as far as I know, 'memorisation' stands for regenerating source material (e.g. asking for 'that poem that compares a loved one to a summer's day' and get a perfect rendering of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 as a result (or verbatim NYT articles in a more negative example). For creativity, see the other elements in this thread.
I must say that some of these reactions focus on how 'precisely correct' the statement is.
There are whiffs of 'bewitchment by language' here :-)