>LLMs are not "compelled" by the training algorithms to learn symbolic logic.

I think "compell" is such a unique human trait that machine will never replicate to the T.

The article did mention specifically about this very issue:

"And of course people can be like that, too - eg much better at the big O notation and complexity analysis in interviews than on the job. But I guarantee you that if you put a gun to their head or offer them a million dollar bonus for getting it right, they will do well enough on the job, too. And with 200 billion thrown at LLM hardware last year, the thing can't complain that it wasn't incentivized to perform."

If it's not already evident that in itself LLM is a limited stochastic AI tool by definition and its distant cousins are the deterministic logic, optimization and constraint programming [1],[2],[3]. Perhaps one of the two breakthroughs that the author was predicting will be in this deterministic domain in order to assist LLM, and it will be the hybrid approach rather than purely LLM.

[1] Logic, Optimization, and Constraint Programming: A Fruitful Collaboration - John Hooker - CMU (2023) [video]:

https://www.youtube.com/live/TknN8fCQvRk

[2] "We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman - MIT (2011) [video]:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI

[3] Google OR-Tools:

https://developers.google.com/optimization

[4] MiniZinc:

https://www.minizinc.org/