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No on should take any of these articles seriously. They all do the same thing: They purposefully reduce a complex task into generating some plausible text, and then act shocked when the LLM can generate plausible text. Then the media credulously reports what the researchers supposedly found.
I wrote a whole thing responding to this entire genre of AI hype articles. I focused on the "AI can do your entire job in 1 minute for 95 cents" style of article, but most of the analysis carries over. It's the same fundamental flaw -- none of this research is real science.