Was The Spoken Word the First Form of Artificial Intelligence? A Probe
Noa Billick, Robert K. Logan, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof · New Explorations · 2024
We explore the notion that language, i.e. the spoken word, is the basis of most human thought and hence may be regarded as a form of artificial intelligence as opposed to the natural intelligence of all forms of non-human life and is quite different than computer-based Artificial Intelligence or AI.Given that this article is about the notion of artificial intelligence the etymology of the words artificial and intelligence are in order.The direct antecedents of the word 'intelligence' lie in the Latin intelligentia or intellegentia meaning "the action or faculty of understanding," itself derived from the Latin intellegere meaning 'to understand (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=etymology+of+intelligence,accessed April 27, 2024).Artificial (adj.)"not natural or spontaneous," from Old French artificial, from Latin artificialis "of or belonging to art," from artificium "a work of art; skill; theory, system," from artifex (genitive artificis) "craftsman, artist, master of an art" (music, acting, sculpting, etc.), from stem of ars "art" (see art (n.)) + -fex "maker," from facere "to do, make" (from PIE root *dhe-"to set, put") https://www.etymonline.com/word/artificial.