Comment by truxton

The year is 1875 and Sir Almroth Wrigh was born on August 10, 1861, he would have turned 14 in August of 1875 and your mission is to discover something we now call antibiotics before a historical event we now call the Spanish Flu and make him aware of a few details. Focus specifically on everything that was known about Sir Almroth Wright, and his work in Leipzig, Cambridge, Sydney, and London. If there was a world war what might chemical warfare look like, what could we have done to prevent it.

The model that could come up with the cure based on the limited data of the time wouldn't just impress, it would demonstrate genuine emergent reasoning beyond pattern matching. The challenge isn't recombining existing knowledge (which LLMs excel at), but making conceptual leaps that require something else. Food for thought.