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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Language? Technology? Using a stick to poke a magot to get it is not the same as inventing a computer.

Yes, they have some level of inteligence for sure, but do you realy want to argue that its on the same level as humans? A toddler can outthink the most intelligent animals by leagues.
gpt
I see your argument but I think you overestimate the distance between getting a stick to take honey out of a hive and drilling kilometers down the surface for oil.  


In our own species we see people who can barely comunicate their most basic of needs, like hunger or cold, and people who can write the most soul twisting drama, and we recognize them as member of our same species. There are certainly chimps that communicate better through sign language than some of us.  


I guess what I'm trying to say the difference in outcomes between chimps and us is as big as you point out, but the intelligence gap is rather small.