Non-human intelligences have always existed in the form of animals.

Animals do not have spoken language the way humans do, so their thoughts aren’t really composed of sentences. Yet, they have intelligence and can reason about their world.

How could we build an AGI that doesn’t use language to think at all? We have no fucking clue and won’t for a while because everyone is chasing the mirage created by LLMs. AI winter will come and we’ll sit around waiting for the next big innovation. Probably some universal GOAP with deeply recurrent neural nets.