I was just thinking that the next class of advances in AI could come from the ability to learn in a similar way humans do.

For example, a model could read a book and then answer questions about it after a period of thinking about and processing the information.

Basically, go beyond the paradigm of single forward pass.

The current models do something like intuitive, instant thinking humans do. But they can't do the type of thinking which takes a long period of time.