I view it as a sophisticated retrieval tool performing lookups in history's largest encyclopedia and returns the information nicely collated. It has no indepen

I view it as a sophisticated retrieval tool performing lookups in history's largest encyclopedia and returns the information nicely collated. It has no independent 'understanding' of the information it retrieved. LLM's are incapable of thinking of something new... of something that has never existed or been imagined before (eg something not known or implied in its data).