I recently ran across this toaster-in-dishwasher article [1] again and was disappointed that the LLMs I have access to could replicate the "hairdryer-in-aquarium" breakthrough (or the toaster-in-dishwasher scenario, although I haven't explored it as much), which has made me a bit skeptical of the ability of LLMs to do novel research. Maybe the new OpenAI research AI is smart enough to figure it out?

[1] https://jdstillwater.blogspot.com/2012/05/i-put-toaster-in-d...