| English is not my first language; my native language has 28 letters & 6 variations of each letter. That gave my old culture more room to capture different types of thinking patterns, though they were mostly spiritual/metaphysical due to the influence of religion early on the language. That culture was too masculine for example, so they didn't really have many words for complex emotions, unlike French & German. French & German do have a wide range of emotional language. You can literally express dozens of complex emotional states in 1 word where it would take 2 sentences to express in English. Still, the french/german words invented so far to express emotional states are fairly primitive compared to the actual emotional states we go through each day. There are still hundreds no mapped out, many have no word in any language. Imagine if English had no such word as Grit, Obsession or passion, would you really be able to consider someone speaking English emotionally intelligent?! An Ai therapist app for example can't really do a good job when many of the emotions the patient feels do not have a word associated with them! which is why a human therapist is still kicking as due to her intuitive detection of that emotional state that needs 2 sentences to describe. This is just 1 example. Language itself is the #1 limiting factor for how intelligent something can be (artificial or not)! What we call intelligence is the abstract ability to find new patterns in a given environment. An ai playing an alien game is unlikely to win if it were only allowed to define %50 of the objects in the game. Same with humans, if our ancestors didn't map all of the possible objects/emotions/items in the world into language, we can't ever pretend that a digital intelligence can navigate it, it literally has no access to %90 of it. If we had a language with 50 letters for example, the 2 sentences needed to describe each emotional state (made of a dozen different individual emotions that we have a word for, and some we didn't map yet) would need only 1 word to describe them laser accurate it makes the reader feel the emotion without needing to experience it firsthand. In a world where a 50-letter language is wildly used by agents, where the digital intelligence is literally able to remember an unlimited number of words - there wouldn't be a need to distort the truth by oversimplifying the thinking process to save memory or to consume less calories.
-We can have a word for every type of American to "grand grandparent career" level, not just call someone black American or white American.
-We can have a different word for every type of attraction, not call all Love. There is "you make me feel good love", "I like your apartment love", "you can be my future wife love"...e.t.c
-We can have a different word for each new startup; a "$5 million ARR startup" is different from a "50M 2-year-old startup".
-Each employee would have 1 word that describes their entire career right away to the HR Ai. |