I don’t think that’s an accurate or useful characterization of modern AI like Claude at all. It is not simply regurgitating knowledge. It applies its knowledge to create bespoke solutions to the problem you pose to it, and is able to self evaluate its progress towards the completion criteria. If you don’t think that counts as “problem solving”, your definition would exclude nearly all knowledge work and engineering.
People underestimate the vastness of training data (internet) and overestimate their ability to recognize if something is really bespoke. Not to say the no problem solving is happening, because there are many problems that we inefficiently solve again and again and the LLMs are making the solutions more accessible to everyone with a subscription.
> It applies its knowledge to create bespoke solutions to the problem you pose to it, and is able to self evaluate its progress towards the completion criteria.
It imitates applying knowledge. The imitation may be uncanny, but assigning LLMs intentionality and ToM is a category error.