This is true for a large subset of problems. LLMs are bad at basically all games, for instance. LLMs are even bad at chess, which has a huge amount of publicly available data. LLMs are really bad at games like backgammon, which has only 10s of millions of tokens of public data.
If it’s thought of as extremely extremely sophisticated auto-complete, then that wouldn’t be surprising at all.
Yet it searches other spaces in ways other things cannot
Well yes, that’s what makes it extremeley extremely sophisticated?