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Turns out language is no longer an indication of intelligence. Any new proposals?

Never was really, as indicated by the Chinese Room Argument:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Highly debated argument though; to me it's like saying you CPU doesn't understand HTML and your browser is running on a CPU, hence it can't understand HTML either. Scott Aaronson explained it nicely too: https://scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec4.html#:~:text=Searl... . Even the wikipedia page mentions many reasonable counter-arguments.

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