Comment by danpalmer

We've had technology beating humans on memory for millennia, and we've had technology beating humans on computation for many decades now.

The tricky thing with LLMs is describing what they actually do. They are too clearly beating humans on some things, but what exactly? Memory – already done, they're bad at basic computation (all LLMs just write code for actual computation/calculation). And as you say, they do badly at more abstract concepts.