Imitation is not the same as reasoning, imagination, or abstraction. You're arguing that Einstein babbled his way to general relativity. There is a fundamental

Imitation is not the same as reasoning, imagination, or abstraction. You're arguing that Einstein babbled his way to general relativity. There is a fundamental difference in what Einstein did as a baby and what he did when he was doing science, it's not just 20 years of more of the same but with a bigger data set. You're going to say that that what you mean is that we are at the beginning of AI development, but that is not an argument unless you can put forward a plausible theory of how you get from babbling to reason and abstraction. In a certain sense we don't even know why humans haven't solved the Reimann hypothesis. There is a creative leap somewhere that we are missing. And we don't how to make it, or how to make it occur to us. But if reasoning is just the idiocy of mimicry then GPT should have solved it already.