Before anybody panics about LLMs let's just take a deep breath, and see this tech for what it is.

It is a giant interpolation machine. It is very good at remixing stuff, but is is hapless when it comes to novel things.

Consider this: an llm was trained on physics, but the training data was cut in 1904. That is just a year before Special Relativity was published. The LLM was then shown papers of SR, GR, and Heisenberg's paper from 1925 that established quantum mechanics, and similar foundational papers of what we call "Modern Physics".

The LLM has systematically "disproved" all of them, and rejected as false.

So even if you show it a novel idea, it's still going to reject it.

It is by design limited to remix existing ideas.

The recent "novel" mathematical proofs are also just remixes. What I mean it uses two or more established math frameworks together to generate a viable bridge. The result is undeniably a new proof, but not a novel idea.

People with novel ideas will always be needed.