LLMs can't discover anything. they can help the operator find pattern matches based on intuition, the novelty comes from the human. the search is accelerated by the robot. it's because they are not *p...
The value of "ai" is very comparable to that of search engines. One difference is that the former can be devastatingly dangerous if trusted by morons, since the results don't really have hard meaning. It's just word soup, that had a good chance of being useful if intelligently analyzed.