What if: Human ability to use language with certain interesting and useful properties isn’t particularly innate, though we may have evolved advantages with it over time. Rather, it is a cultural invention with useful applications to technology. If this idea is true we should see gains in capability by any animal society that culturally transmits traditions that learns or develops languages of similar properties. I think from the AI perspective we can certainly argue it’s been quite handy for a nonhuman entity that does have innate connection to language.
What if: Human ability to use language with certain interesting and useful properties isn’t particularly innate, though we may have evolved advantages with it over time. Rather, it is a cultural invention with useful applications to technology. If this idea is true we should see gains in capability by any animal society that culturally transmits traditions that learns or develops languages of similar properties. I think from the AI perspective we can certainly argue it’s been quite handy for a nonhuman entity that does have innate connection to language.