the recent episode of Machine Learning Street Talk on control theory for LLMs sounds like it's thinking in this direction. Say you have 100k agents searching through research papers, and then trying every combination of them, 100k^2, to see if there is any synergy of ideas, and you keep doing this for all the successful combos... some of these might give the researchers some good ideas to try out. I can see it happening, if they can fine tune a model that becomes good at idea synergy. but then again real creativity is hard