Human use of speech acts involves intelligence. Elephant 2000 is on the borderline of AI, but the article emphasizes the Elephant usages that do not require AI.

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• Many uses of speech acts do not require human-level intelligence for programs to perform them.claim0.872
  Key contention of paper: Elephant 2000 can support varying levels of AI capability without requiring full human intelligence.
• Elephant 2000 programs can perform some kinds of speech acts as genuinely as humans, including genuine promises.claim0.856
  McCarthy's position against Searle: computers can genuinely promise without requiring Searle's conditions (e.g., belief that fulfillment benefits recipient).
• Elephant speech acts are a step above strings, because the higher levels of the speech acts have a meaning independent of the application program.claim0.842
  Advantage of speech acts over plain strings.
• Elephant programs that interact non-trivially with the outside world can have both input-output specifications, relating the programs inputs and outputs, and accomplishment specifications concerning what the program accomplishes in the world. These concepts are respectively generalizations of the philosophers' illocutionary and perlocutionary speech acts.claim0.820
  Fifth abstract claim.
• Many kinds of human speech act are relative to social institutions that change, and the exchange of speech acts among computer programs will often involve the design of new institutions prescribing the effects of speech acts.claim0.801
  Claim about designing institutions for program speech acts.
• Speech acts are necessary in common sense informatic situations where agents with different goals and knowledge interact.claim0.792
  McCarthy's fundamental position: most important features of speech acts are independent of whether agents are human or machine.
• Which speech act uses require AI/intentionality vs which do not?question0.791
• Many speech act properties are independent of whether the agent is human or machine.claim0.787