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No duh - why would it have any ability to do that sort of task?
Because if it's able to crawl all of the science pubs, then it would be able to try different combos until it works. Isn't that how it could/is being used, to test stuff?
It doesn't check the stuff it generates other than on grammatical and orthographical errors. It's not intelligent or has knowledge outside of how to create text. The text looks useful, but it doesn't know what it contains in a way something intelligent would.
Recent papers have shown that LLMs build internal world models but about a topic as niche and complicated as cancer treatment, a chatbot based on GPT-3.5 be woefully ill-equipped to do any kind of proper reasoning.
It seems like it could check for that though, which is what chatgpt doesn't do but we all assumed would. I'm sure there are ai programs that could and do check for possibilities on only information we know to be true.
People who understand the technology did not assume that, but yes the general public has a lot of misconceptions about it.