[ElectronCharge]

Your final paragraph is a poor definition of human level intelligence.

Yes, learning is an important aspect of human cognition. However, the key factor that humans possess that LLMs will never possess, is the ability to reason logically. That facility is necessary in order to make new discoveries based on prior logical frameworks like math, physics, and computer science.

I believe LLMs are more akin to our subconscious processes like image recognition, or forming a sentence. What’s missing is an executive layer that has one or more streams of consciousness, and which can reason logically with full access to its corpus of knowledge. That would also add the ability for the AI to explain how it reached a particular conclusion.

There are likely other nuances required (motivation etc.) for (super) human AI, but some form of conscious executive is a hard requirement.