Comment by jmalicki

I would maybe argue that Einstein was the most LLM-like of great thinkers.

A lot of his great discoveries were mostly that he was very knowledgeable about the bleeding edge research in a number of disparate areas, and was able to have the aha moment where he could make the connections for how to integrate them.

A lot of other thinkers who created new fields from scratch are probably way harder for an LLM to crack.

That is very aligned with an LLMs ability to have superhuman knowledge in wide areas.