alt Hacker NewsYup, I too am surprised this hasn't (at least by my awareness) entered the zeitgeist.
At work I'm putting together an MCP server that more easily exposes our legume data for model consumption, and part of the insane value-add has been the curatorial work that our collaborators at USDA put into the data over years. For example, genome data (i.e. nucleic acid fastas) include relevant metadata such as their DOIs, so models can fetch and read the original papers (if they're open access, of course).
This goes a long way to boosting the intelligence/usefulness of these systems for research.
Yeah, you have to do the lateral thinking yourself. But the LLMs can do the work of going into a single-focus rabbit hole quite quickly.