Aknup says:
February 24, 2026 at 9:53 am
First of all your statement : There’s no current AI research anywhere that takes any of this well-known brain structure into account.
Should have the addendum “in the US, as far as I know” because of course you don’t know what research is being done in every research center in the world. And even in the US alone there must be research that is hidden from the competition et cetera and so not known to you and me. Not to mention other places like China and such.

As for “current crop of AI can only go so far and no further”, I think that you seem to assume the industry wants actual intelligent and conscious systems, and I don’t think they do.
It would be intellectually interesting, but of course would be hugely problematic in actual use, so in terms of big business you want to stop well before that point.

Also Altman said in an interview that other researcher told him early on that LLM’s were a dead end in terms of getting real intelligence, and that seems to indicate there is research gong on that takes a quite different path, regardless of all the billions and attention that currently goes to LLM-like stuff.