Gregory's Server@evan additionally, why is language use a more defining characteristic of intelligence than tool use? Chimps, bonobos, dolphins, octopi, corvids etc all can use tools and solve complex tasks but aren't good at language (to our definition of language). Does this matter?
@bikeshed I am not! I think you should go back and reread my post with fresh eyes. I said that LLMs do better on some of the measures of intelligence than chimps and dolphins. I didn't say that they are more intelligent than those animals, nor did I say that the measures of intelligence they excel at are more important than the intelligence necessary to survive in the world.