Why isn't a LLM as smart as a human? Therein lies your problem.
I'm asking why is it reassuring about his job? Surely your big human brain can understand to be automated away doesn't mean the machine is "smart as a human" whatever that means. There is probably not a lot of utility in comparing synthetic and organic intelligence from such a reductive perspective.
Factory workers got automated by machines. Is a robotic arm smarter than a human? Is a tractor smarter than a bovine?
My question is simply what is he doing that is so "smart" or novel that it cannot be automated or mechanized. This should not be so hard to understand.
Why should they answer the question if you can't answer it yourself? What is he doing that is so "smart" or novel that it cannot be automated or mechanized right now? If you knew that answer you could put every one out of a job right now and you would be counting your trillions instead of asking "simple" questions on HN
Machines don't go deep on problems, humans do. A machine has no will or purpose to solve a novel problem on their own. Hope that answers your question.
How are these math problems being solved? AI just needs to recursively self prompt. Why does it need a human will? As long as the power keeps flowing and the recursion is resilient, what computational problem discoverable by a human is out of reach?