Comment by stuartjohnson12

This is the thing that stands out to me. Nearly all of the criticisms levelled at LLMs are problems I, myself, would make if you locked me in a sensory isolation tank and told me I was being paid a million bucks an hour to think really hard. Humans already have terms for this - overthinking, rumination, mania, paranoia, dreaming.

Similarly, a lot of cognitive tasks become much more difficult without the ability to recombinate with sensory data. Blindfold chess. Mental mathematics.

Whatever it is that sleep does to us, agents are not yet capable of it.