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Maybe the ghost is not in the machine or in the brain, but in language. We might be conditional language agents.


What about intelligent animals with no language?


None of them are as intelligent as us. Maybe that's the difference.

Side note, I really want to see AI study of animals that are candidates for having languages, like chimpanzees, whales, dolphins etc. I want to see what the latent space of dolphins' communicative noises looks like when mapped.




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