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Yes, thank you!! I have been trying to make this point for years. It seems self-evident to me, but it's hard to convince people of this.

But I think it's worth mentioning that what we have is already useful for research and making people smarter. Even Terence Tao has blogged that there were times where an LLM suggested an approach to a problem that hadn't occurred to him. This also happened to me once, enabling me to solve a problem that I'd failed to figure out on my own.



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