I don't quite get why this is seen as stalling or hitting a plateau rather than the point where research has to move on to the next step for AI development (assuming that's the goal).<p>LLMs were never going to be artificial intelligence. At best LLMs would be an analog for the language center of a brain, and it sure seems like they nailed it.<p>What they would need next is the other functions of a brain beyond just language - imagine a human if the only part of their brain that worked was the language center. OpenAI kind of gets to that with o1, but at least what I know of it the attempt seems like a pretty hacky proof of concept.<p>If they really want AI they are very likely going to have to make breakthroughs in algorithm and architecture to best serve other brain functions, similar to what LLM architecture did for language.