[whatever1]

It’s ok, LLMs are useful as they are today. Even if they can never can come up with the next generation of math, physics etc.

Even for humans the brains who managed a step change in thinking are so rare that we literally know them by name.

[whiplash451]

You might be missing that those rare humans were sitting on tons of failed or somewhat useful discoveries made by more “mediocre” humans that history forgot.