The gap you identified—that current AI is a "jagged" statistical alien rather than a robust, survival-oriented entity—is arguably the central problem in modern AI research. To make AI more "holistic" (moving it from a narrow spike in intelligence space toward the robust "animal" cluster), we cannot simply make LLMs larger. We must change the architecture and the optimization pressures to mimic the factors that created animal intelligence. Here is the engineering roadmap to bridging that gap:
- From "Next Token" to "System 2" Reasoning The "jagged frontier" exists because LLMs operate almost entirely on "System 1" (fast, intuitive pattern matching). If the pattern isn't in the data, they hallucinate. To fix this, we are moving toward Neuro-Symbolic and Verifier-based architectures.
- The Fix: Instead of one model predicting the next word, we use a "Generator-Verifier" loop.
- Generator (The Artist): Proposes a solution (e.g., code, math, logic).
- Verifier (The Critic): A separate model trained specifi