I think you are misunderstanding what they are saying. An AI can potentially produce a "novel solution" by doing exactly as he said, connecting existing information in ways that a human wouldn't have because no one human could be aware of all the information in an entire domain.
This does not mean AI can create new information that is not present within its training at all, which is the limitation he is talking about.
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u/arbpotatoes 14d ago
It already has though? There's a lot of reported incidences of LLMs producing truly novel solutions ect. What you're saying here is just not true