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Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence (karawynn.substack.com)
submitted 1 year ago by irkli@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Yes! This is a brilliant explanation of why language use is not the same as intelligence, and why LLMs like chatGPT are not intelligence. At all.

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[–] prototyperspective@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Here are some correlations of language skills and other intelligence factors or evaluations (e.g. IQ) via a study (recently integrated the info into the article: Neurogenetics – language GWAS

However, I largely agree – see for example this argument / its sources