LLMs do not have general intelligence, but it does an awfully good job doing something human thought typically does -- synthesizing ideas. It's able to combine

LLMs do not have general intelligence, but it does an awfully good job doing something human thought typically does -- synthesizing ideas. It's able to combine X and Y to produce Z. LLMs cannot do first-principles reasoning well (unless it has seen the pattern before), but they excel at reasoning through analogy. And guess what? Most humans reason analogically too. Analogical reasoning -- as opposed to first principles reasoning -- is actually more effective and useful in many situations, especially in ill-defined domains. Humans often think, "this situation looks like something that I've seen before, so I can apply my past knowledge but with a few tweaks."