[jll29]

Can anyone comment on the "distance to publication-worthiness" of the typical question from this set?

[christianstump]

Infinitly far away. These questions are about "have you understood and can you apply existing research" not about "create new research".

For humans, these two correlate quite strongly. So we ask PhD students to work on the former to prepare and to become better at the latter.

For LLMs, it remains unclear if there is any correlation.