I'm Sorry Dave, ChatGPT Can't Do That

As a computer science major, one of my biggest pet peeves is the way people talk about and use artificial intelligence (AI).

Here’s the deal: a lot of the messaging around AI is all hype. Major tech companies are exalting the immense power of AI as a tool because they want more people to buy into it, and therefore make their billions of dollars of investments into the technology worthwhile.

This technology is not as powerful as you have been led to believe.

First of all, what we call “artificial intelligence” lacks the ability to think. What we call AI today is nowhere near the realm of someth...