It is true and it's worth reminding. Science is progressed by interpretation of data. And we have easy access to a behemoth that needs interpreting. AI winter shouldn't come anytime soon.
…assuming we make significant progress in explaining the data. Science means coming up with theories based on observations, and then testing the theory by verifying the further predictions made by those theories by experiment. It remains to be seen how much success there will be in that regard for LLMs.