A superb essay by Karawynn Long pointing out a central challenge in today’s language-focused AI — which is the assumption that fluency with language *is* intelligence: https://karawynn.substack.com/p/language-is-a-poor-heuristic-for

As Long notes, many folks with autism are exceptionally intelligent but don’t possess high fluency with spoken language — and they get regarded as unintelligent: https://karawynn.substack.com/p/language-is-a-poor-heuristic-for

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The whole essay is crackling and worth reading in full; Long predicts that the penchant of large language model chatbots for screwing up basic facts will nudge users to stop associating language with intelligence …

I hope she’s right, though the counterargument would be that humans have for aeons been perfectly happy to ascribe intelligence — and, indeed, absolute genius — to gladhanding bullshitters

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