[flakeoil]

Should Einstein not be allowed to use a calculator and instead waste his time on performing the calculations by hand?

[Vespasian]

Obviously yes. And how they use these tools is important.

But it's quite interesting to see what these models can do internally and what they can't do yet. It possibly outlines future research areas (beyond " more scale") and opportunities for competitors to enter the market (which is usually better for consumers and society as a whole).

Maybe that's the difference between productization and academic reasearch.