I suggest playing around with gemini's 1 or 2 million context window. You'd be surprised how much you can get from an LLM when you can drop a few textbooks on the topic into the context window before asking it anything.

Mind you, this is also all early gen stuff.

On the flipside, AI's have a super-human ability to consume knowledge that humans can't compete with.

This just seems like putting a human-constraint on AI systems so that we can still classify ourselves as special.