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I would be surprised if we did not already have AIs that could invent calculus from first principles.

LLMs solve natural langage and common sense, which are not necessary for discovering calculus.

LLMs have not 'solved' either language or common sense. They will unknowingly and quite blatantly contradict themselves, for instance.

That's only because memories haven't been fully developed for AI, yet. Most LLM examples don't know what they said in response to input from yesterday, much less from 5 minutes ago.

Additionally, without a construct, like a body, in which to store these memories, AGI will continue to disappoint those who do.

You can propose the premise of your first paragraph, but it is not an established fact.

As ChatGPT can contradict itself within a single reply, I doubt that this is the only issue.

I believe our common desires to establish what is and what is not factual get in the way of innovation. Talking about something isn't going to solve the problem. Doing, might: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.06009.pdf

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