We fed all of human knowledge into the system and now we can just decompress bit by bit. Issue is the moment ai is fed the ai stuff it’s like that meme jpeged ten times. It’s getting so bad you can not even understand it anymore.
AI is just a thought compression algorithm and can not come up with new ideas.
In the Stokes case a number of researchers that where close to the solution suspect OpenAI was reading their homework.
LLM’s certainly have the capability of extracting novel correlations from their vast training sets. But whether that really counts as “new thinking” remains to be seen.