In the human brain, language is the window to our inner simulation. Language is the interface to our mental world. And language is built on the foundation of our ability to model and reason about the minds of others—to infer what they mean and figure out exactly which words will produce the desired simulation in their mind. I think most would agree that the humanlike artificial intelligences we will one day create will not be LLMs; language models will be merely a window to something richer that lies beneath.
