Humans seem to be able to invent interesting questions about the unknown and then figure out how to try techniques to answer those questions and then systematic

Humans seem to be able to invent interesting questions about the unknown and then figure out how to try techniques to answer those questions and then systematically attack those questions. This is why LLMs generally can’t do unsupervised research or novel high level engineering by themselves. They’re getting closer and closer in some ways and in others they remain quite lacking. The other thing is their inability to intelligently forget and their inability to correctly manage their own context by building their own tools (some of which is labs intentionally crippling how they build AI to avoid an AI escape). I don’t think there’s anything novel in human intelligence as a good chunk of it does appear in more primitive forms in other animals (primates, elephants, dolphins, cepholapods). But generally our intelligence is on hyperdrive because we also have the added physical ability of written language and the capability for tool building.