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> 100s of millions of years.

Most animals don't acquire language, and the non-humans who are the best candidates for it all appear to have developed it independently; specifically in humans the potential is at most around 10mil years ago since we don't find it in other closely-related primates. Actual language is ~3 orders of magnitude younger, and during most of the time since then humans didn't have such high-density ways to ingest it. As I mentioned elsewhere in the comments, GPT-3 consists of around a million modern-human-years of linguistic intake. It seems to have the strong lead here.

> it doesn't matter that LLMs work differently from the human brain.

It does if your goal is to learn how human language acquisition works, rather than grind through another trillion in VC cash via your mechanical parrots.