Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought

I thought I was using AI in an incredibly positive and healthy way, as a bicycle for my mind and a way to vastly increase my thinking capacity. But LLMs are insidious–using them to explore ideas feels like work, but it’s not real work. Developing a prompt is like scrolling Netflix, and reading the output is like watching a TV show. Intellectual rig... See more

As a result, we instinctively measure the intelligence of other “things”—human and non-human—based on their linguistic capabilities.