Luckily for us, whole fortunes can be made by filling in the blanks between what we know and what we realize.

That deserves to be on a plaque somewhere.

I've been using LLMs for much the same purpose: solving problems within my field of expertise where the limiting factor is not intelligence per se, but the ability to connect the right dots from among a vast corpus of knowledge that I would never realistically be able to imbibe and remember over the course of a lifetime.

Once the dots are connected, I can verify the solutions and/or extend them in creative ways with comparatively little effort.

It really is incredible what otherwise intractable problems have become solvable as a result.

And by having more of those blanks filled humans might be able to come up with much better extrapolations than what we have right now.