Maybe? Interpreting the statistics is an area that can be challenging, but as it relates to a particular subject matter, yeah. I have for example, acquired a great deal of knowledge on the topic of cholesterol metabolism, which should be obvious from my posts here. Funny thing is that my knowledge in that area probably outstrips most doctors and some cardiologists who all have a way more advanced understanding of biology than I do.
Cool thing about LLMs for me is that they allow me to parse and analyze a great deal more information than I would otherwise be able to. In my case, offloading the statistics work helps tremendously. I do have to validate that it's correct, but it's still way faster than me stumbling through it.
I think it goes beyond that. There is some measure of creativity or something that I can't quite pinpoint. I know some smart people that use them for certain aspects, "create a plan to do X" or "provide code to do Y". The prompts can be quite sophisticated, but effectively the thing is an agent sent to solve a problem.
Other people, myself included, use them to develop thoughts and ideas as well as advance one's understanding of various things. I don't think that intelligence is the main distinction between these two sets of people.
