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Georgios Mappouras
Date
June 29, 2026

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Information Theory, Probability

Tagged
Algorithmic novelty, functional information, Georgios Mappouras, Infinite monkeys theorem}

That Monkey Cannot Even Find Shakespeare!

_{When it comes to randomly typing out the complete works of Shakespeare, time is not the monkey’s problem; information is} _{Georgios Mappouras
June 29, 2026

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Information Theory, Probability}

Instead of asking whether a system can imitate human behavior, the relevant question is whether it can generate new functional information.

Horizontal Innovation Requires More Than Novel Outputs

_{Current AI systems excel at producing output novelty, but I do not believe they demonstrate algorithmic novelty} _{Georgios Mappouras
June 15, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

LLMs’ impressive outputs demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithms; they do not demonstrate that the AI has invented new computational methods.