Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)

LLMs are statistical models trained on human-generated text. They aren't the perfectly logical "machine brains" that Asimov and others imagined.

The upshot of this is that LLMs are quite good at the stuff that he thinks only humans will be able to do. What they aren't so good at (yet) is really rigorous reasoning, exactly the opposite of what 20th century people assumed.

Reminds me of an old math professor I had. Before word processors, he'd write up the exam on paper, and the department secretary would type it up.

Then when word processors came around, it was expected that faculty members will type it up themselves.

I don't know if there were fewer secretaries as a result, but professors' lives got much worse.

He misses the old days.