Guessing: the advantage AIs have for discoveries is applying the methodology of previous discoveries to a vast search space that is impractical for humans and even manual automation. In this way, AI can quickly identify gaps that would have been discovered by humans given enough time. In other word...

Because the “it’s just simple token prediction” is nonsense and no one really understands what these models are really doing to arrive at the results they serve.

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 *precise* pattern matches, but can find matches across a whole variety of close similarities all the w...

"Claude explore the universe of possible solutions, ranks them and test out each one" probably

They can search and find stuff, that should have been discovered but nobody figured it out yet.