> The hockey stick that's coming for human progress overall is going to make the industrial revolution look like a flatline.

So far the effect on human progress has been pretty modest, I dare say. At the moment I would even regard it as a net negative on society. Maybe let's wait a few years before making such grand assessments.

No. It can't invent things on its own, it repeats what it's already seen.

People keep seeing LLM outputs without seeing the original source first, then exclaim: The LLM invented it.