alt Hacker News> Still the fact that LLMs can do well in things like the maths olympiad have me thinking there must be some way to tweak this to be more brain like
That's because you, as you admit in the next sentence, have almost no understanding of how they work.
Your reasoning is on the same level as someone in the 1950s thinking ubiquitous flying cars are just a few years away. Or fusion power, for that matter.
In your defense, that seems to be about the average level of engagement with this technology, even on this website.
Maybe but the flying cars and fusion ran into fundamental barriers of the physics being hard. With human level intelligence though we have evidence it's possible from our brains which seem to use less compute than the LLMs going by power usage so I don't see a fundamental barrier to it just needing some different code.