Pith Number

pith:ODSNDKQR

pith:2025:ODSNDKQRBVAY3QYZJGTGNZOEO7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Next Token Prediction Is a Dead End for Creativity

Ibukun Olatunji, Mark Sheppard

arxiv:2505.19277 v1 · 2025-05-25 · cs.AI · cs.CL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ODSNDKQRBVAY3QYZJGTGNZOEO7}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:09:27.367558Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

70e4d1aa110d418dc31949a666e5c477d9e86c00b22c3fd7122e106a2d5bf53a

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.19277 · arxiv_version: 2505.19277v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.19277 · pith_short_12: ODSNDKQRBVAY · pith_short_16: ODSNDKQRBVAY3QYZ · pith_short_8: ODSNDKQR

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ODSNDKQRBVAY3QYZJGTGNZOEO7 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 70e4d1aa110d418dc31949a666e5c477d9e86c00b22c3fd7122e106a2d5bf53a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "25d804b74d659b56fb99ff36564dcc1cddccda2cd2e4c33b950bad9698a6b5d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-25T19:18:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4afc0ffd5ed0a690fb8f52157659c9a7604c6adbbda98df083904c716b06c14"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.19277",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}