You seem to be missing their point (which I agree with). The type of intelligence we are equipped with allows us not to have the level of memory an LLM does and still complete tasks that are novel to us every single day. Like navigating a shopping cart through tricky coridors in a store, coming up with a dad joke as in sibling example, combining a set of tools to achieve something we have never seen before, etc.
LLMs approximate a lot of that very well by simply having seen it before.
Also watch kids develop language: they learn patterns with much less training data than LLMs.
LLMs approximate a lot of that very well by simply having seen it before.
Also watch kids develop language: they learn patterns with much less training data than LLMs.