Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? We humans tend to associate language with intelligence. But the latest research suggests that language isn’t the same as intelligence, says Benjamin Riley, founder of the venture Cognitive Resonance, in a essay for The Verge. “We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought. If language were essential to thinking, then taking it away should take away our ability to think.