"Reality" is an alien concept to a Human. All they have is sequences of motions and noises they can complete.
I explained to someone mum is mum because of lips, air and sounds and they didn't believe me, so that's what we're contending with....
I used to think that but newer models' increasing coherence coupled with the astonishing success of RLHF makes me think that LLMs that can effectively intuit "reality" will emerge fairly soon.
Maybe we're overestimating average human brain capabilities
I think the evidence of all human progress disagrees with this statement fairly strongly.
Human progress is driven by a small percentage of the population
The human body is driven by a small percentage of the overall genome. It remains to be seen if that small percentage really doesn’t play a part… we tend to remember those who scored the goal, but often forget about what it took for the scorer to have a shot in the first place…