Imo, intelligence is not about words at all. A words processor, such as LLM, is just a gate thru which AIs will communicate. Intelligence works more like this:

Imo, intelligence is not about words at all. A words processor, such as LLM, is just a gate thru which AIs will communicate. Intelligence works more like this: you throw a pile of semi-organized data at it, results of experiments or observations, and it finds a pattern behind yhe data. How it communicates with us, via LLMs or by other means, is a secondary question. Speculating further, I think that finding that pattern doesn't necessarily look like computation. It may look like this: our mind projects datapoints into a higher dimensional space, where symmetries are more apparent, and finds the simplest configuration that approximates the datapoints. The approximation happens automatically by a physical process based on quantum effects.