"Therefore, the outputs of a LLM, at best, reflect our current understanding of the universe and nothing more." Others have reflected on the problems with this

"Therefore, the outputs of a LLM, at best, reflect our current understanding of the universe and nothing more." Others have reflected on the problems with this statement, and I agree, LLMs can be prompted to navigate the training corpus and create novel output, countering this claim. However, these criticisms neglect to credit the external intelligence inherent to the prompts themselves. AutoGPT and its ilk have yet to create convincing agency: for the time being the current state of AI is a mere extension of human intelligence and will not be making lofty discoveries without direct human interaction. LLMs are a form of human co-intelligence.