Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought - Nature - eviltoast
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    5 months ago

    Instead, language is a powerful tool for the transmission of cultural knowledge; it plausibly co-evolved with our thinking and reasoning capacities, and only reflects, rather than gives rise to, the signature sophistication of human cognition.

    So, I guess, while the LLM approach to AI does do a good job mimicking the effects of our intelligence, it probably can’t really recreate it on its own