A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in

Ah its so refreshing to read a comment on the state of affairs of LLMs that is clearly from someone that gets it.

Indeed true intelligence is wordless! Think about it - words are merely a vehicle for what one is trying to express within oneself. But what one is trying to express is actually worldless - words are just the most efficient way that humans have figured out as being the mode of communication.

Whenever I think of a concept, I'm not thinking of words. Im visualising something - this is where meaning and understanding comes from. From seeing and then being able to express it.

Terence McKenna makes the argument that spoken language is a form of bandwidth-limited telepathy in which thoughts are processed by a dictionary, encoded into variations of strength of an acoustical pressure wave which transmitted by mechanical means, detected at a distance, and re-encoded to be compared against the dictionary of a second user.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnPBGiHGmYI