There's a smell of pseudo-science here. That weird blend of interesting + plausible with sprinkles of heavy-handed parallels.
After "Isaac Newton, who may have been the smartest person who ever lived" the level of trust fell drastically.
Sure, the periodic table was extremely useful and we were using electricity before we understood it, but we understand LLMs far better, mostly because they are our own creation.
Maybe the lines between exploration, creation and discovery are fuzzy sometimes, but this article tips over into AI propaganda.