I mean, recognition is literally the task that is always used for intro to machine learning. From facial recognition and other biometric, handwriting, object recognition. It isn’t a surprise that “AI” is able to outperform humans in this task since sometimes AI can pick up features that are too subtle for us to notice. The problem is LLM being hailed as the truth machine or AGI. LLM to NLP is what CNN and GAN is to image processing tasks.