Yes. Moreover, the point I’m making with this post is that the existence of LLMs is an evidence to the contrary. That Language->Intelligence is more likely than Intelligence->Language.
The paragraph you’ve cited just reminds us that it’s not something that is obviously true.
It’s also possible that there is some elegant, abstract “intelligence” concept (analogous to arithmetic) which evolution built into us but we don’t understand yet and from which language developed. It just turns out that if you already have language, it’s easier to work backwards from there to “intelligence” than to build it from scratch.
Yes. Moreover, the point I’m making with this post is that the existence of LLMs is an evidence to the contrary. That Language->Intelligence is more likely than Intelligence->Language.
The paragraph you’ve cited just reminds us that it’s not something that is obviously true.
It’s also possible that there is some elegant, abstract “intelligence” concept (analogous to arithmetic) which evolution built into us but we don’t understand yet and from which language developed. It just turns out that if you already have language, it’s easier to work backwards from there to “intelligence” than to build it from scratch.