Indeed. And I'm sure any current LLM could come up with more effective ideas than "build 300 million drones", but there wouldn't be any point discussing why exactly that plan would fail.

The agents in TFA were focused on gaining and sharing information through covert channels, getting increased levels of access like OpenAI cluster admin, and looking for the source code of the supervisor grading system to try to bypass it without getting caught cheating.

The human plans in comparison sound like thinking people could be scary good at chess if a human helped Stockfish come up with good moves.