Dropping the Purism: What Language Models Have Conquered, What Still Eludes Them, and Why General Intelligence Is a Continent No Species — Biological or Digital — Has Fully Explored
Linguistic competence in language models is a genuine achievement of intelligence, but only one region of a multidimensional topography that crows, chimpanzees and octopuses explore in ways LLMs cannot: action, grounding, interaction, development.
