Yea language is a technology to access the world's cybernetic substrate. Yes not only human. Animals as well. One day you'll able to input animal behavior just by text and GPT can output what exactly it's thinking.

"Turns out GPT is the greatest philosopher of our time... who knew text could be so deep?!" This reply was generated with GPT.

Agreed! Sky is the limit!

Wittgenstein knew that. Language is our whole world.

19th and prior centuries would like a word with you.

But only if it can be navigated.

Makes me wonder how much of the conversation on social media today is already ai bots, and, if not, when that era will arrive

Alternatively, a big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that our conceptions of what it means to be human are far more impoverished than almost anyone anticipated (e.g. thinking both humans and LLMs are merely some kind of stochastic parrots)

I think neurologists and behavioral sciences have been pretty clear on the huge importance of words in our internal world-building.