So the best way I can describe how humans abstract our thinking is that “a thought about a thought is itself a thought”. I am not an expert but I don’t believe

So the best way I can describe how humans abstract our thinking is that “a thought about a thought is itself a thought”. I am not an expert but I don’t believe LLMs can arbitrarily abstract their current “thought”, put it down for later contemplation, trace back to a previous thought or a random thought, and out of these individual thoughts form an understanding. I would expect that a higher level algorithm would be required to string together thoughts into understandings. Then again, I wonder if what we are going to see is fundamentally different kinds of intelligences that just do not necessarily think like humans. Chimps cannot tell you about last Tuesday since their memory seems a lot more associative than recall based. But they have situational awareness that even our superheroes in our comics do not generally posses (flash some numbers in front of a chimp for one second and he will remember all their positions and order even if you distract him immediately after). Maybe LLMs cannot be human intelligent but you could argue that they are a kind of intelligence.