> To say that LLMs are intelligent means that language is a requirement for intelligence. Thats some fairly magical thinking... buy any sufficently advanced technology..

When I was a kid, it was the definition of intelligence that separated humans from animals.

And there's a reason "dumb" means "mute" and independently "stupid".

It may well be an incorrect requirement. It may be a single form of intelligence out of many which happen to correlate in humans, but not in minds created by artifice.

But it does have a history.