ChatGPT vs humans: What it can and cannot accomplish

There are limits to what AI chatbots like ChatGPT can do. They will continue to evolve, but there will still be a shadow of uncertainty

When I was a young boy, I was enthralled by the Bengali stories that the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray wrote. I was reminded of one of Ray’s science fiction stories, Compu, published in 1978, when I thought about OpenAI’s newest chatbot, ChatGPT, which is based on an autoregressive language model that employs deep learning to produce impressively detailed and human-like writing.

In Compu, Professor Shonku, an eccentric super-scientist, collaborated with other scientists to create a chatbot-like spherical computer brain with millions of delicate circuits. They, however, unintentionally created an AI or Artificial Intelligence in Compu. In those pre-Google days, of