> If AI is so innovative then why am I seeing a dumb retard everytime I discuss anything even remotely innovative with it.
My experience slightly differs: yes, LLMs are not the best entities to discuss innovative scientific ideas that one has in mind, but they are still often much more competent discussion partners on such topics than the people you are typically surrounded with (e.g. work colleagues).
(no, this is not a template for a Reddit /r/iamverysmart/ post :-) , but just my experience).
I agree. Your experience mirrors mine. Yes, they are often competent discussion partners, although a lot of people I hang around with are also excellent discussion partners.
But unlike with real people, LLMs have this unique property that we can abuse them without consequences directly leading to our improved understanding of the subject material using nothing but pure frustration as the motivating drive.
So for me, they are productive precisely because they remain dumb discussion partners.