Yes, but I'm less sure about language models at the really high level (eg arriving at novel solutions to hard problems through LLMs).

Most ML in practice isn't about doing better than a person, it's about doing it faster and cheaper. Could a human who studied my viewing habits curate better Netflix recommendations for me? Obviously, but Netflix can't afford to do that for everyone and it would take forever.

There's also ML that's not based on data generated by humans. I know we're in the era of LLMs, but that's not all there is