[lubujackson]

Don't undersell AI - it also synthesizes and recombines those summaries in a purposeful way. Otherwise it couldn't product code that works in an existing codebase.

So it is able to process and act upon summaries and concepts. In other words, apply synthesis. What it can't do is understand what a useful result looks like without direction. So it could synthesize a billion pointless claims from source material, but we still need a human to know which ones matter (without a specialized framework to comprehend this). If you provide LLMs with an objective and source materials it is certainly capable of following threads of logic or building an argument backed by sources.

I understand the concerns about AI, but it is a powerful tool for discovery and synthesis.

[antonvs]

Another thing they’re often poor at is making an incorrect assumption and then going down a rabbit hole trying to unnecessarily solve for it. Without a discerning human in the loop, you can end up with large amounts of unnecessary output.