Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert.

We humans tend to associate language with intelligence. We tend to be compelled by those with greater linguistic skills as orators or writers.

But the latest research suggests that language isn’t the same as intelligence, says Benjamin Riley, founder of the venture Cognitive Resonance, in a essay for The Verge. And that’s bad news for the AI industry, which is predicating its hopes and dreams of creating an all-knowing artificial general intelligence, or AGI, on the large language model architecture it’s already using.

“The problem is that according to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language —

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