AIs Can Think, But They Don't Know What They Are Doing* – Casey Dorman, Author

In Cixin Liu's "The Dark Forest," the second book in the Chinese sci-fi writer's "The Three-Body Problem" series, an alien says that it is puzzled by the fact that humans do not regard "think" and "say" as synonyms. The aliens' thoughts are immediately discernible to each other, so they do not have a need to "say" anything. For them, speaking and thinking are the same. Humans are different because we cannot read each other's thoughts and may choose to not speak about what they are thinking. So, for humans, speaking and thinking are different, but what about words and thoughts?