The important part of it was the beginning: I think that the biggest failure of the AI people, over the years, was to not have an objective, testable definition for intelligence. Instead, they focused on particular tasks.
I think language requires intelligence; I don't believe the inverse is true. Self-awareness may require some amount of language, however -- but I have no idea how you'd go about doing an objective test for self-awareness. Do you?
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