> The question I’m having though is: How different are we from that?

It's obvious we are different, but if we could answer exactly how with sufficient rigor, we would already have better AI and be asking different questions. :p

I readily admit that LLMs are an exciting potential piece of a much bigger puzzle, but this could easily be like trying to parse HTML only using regular expressions: It works great on trivial input, but no amount of minor would let it truly solve the problem, because it lacks some higher structure of organization or meaning.