I also think people underestimate how much benefit a current LLM already has to researchers.

A lot of them have to do things on computers which has nothing to do with their expertise. Like coding a small tool for working their data, small tools crunching results, formatting text data, searching and finding the right materials.

A LLM which helps a scientist to code something in an hour instead of a week, makes this research A LOT faster.

And we know from another paper, that we have now so much data, you need to use systems to find the right information for you. The study estimated how much additionanl critical information a research paper missed.