@nathaliesmith I totally agree that our current incarnation of AI (LLMs) will always be a step behind. But that really depends on the context of the user. LLMs are just a fancy way to retrieve information at the end of the day. It can feel creative or novel because the user may not be expecting what it outputs. The flip side is if the user does have an expected output and it misses, it feels broken. It’s sort of a miracle that LLMs do anything sensible at all when you really boil down the nuts of bolts of whats happening!
So I agree it will be a step behind with respect to all of human knowledge but for an individual user, it can be way ahead of them depending on what they are trying to accomplish!