In this article, Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts and Jeffrey Watumull discuss the false promise of ChatGPT, an AI-based chatbot. They argue that AI is nothing like the human mind, which took millions of years to evolve. They point out that computers are millions of times faster than the human brain, and are capable of quick high-precision floating-point arithmetic. The authors also suggest that machines will eclipse and replace humans at science, math and engineering within this century.
