AI’s abilities, limitations and similarities to the human brain
AI is ever present in the news. Specifically with the advent of ChatGPT and the amazing abilities of this technology. If you haven’t taken a play around in ChatGPT, I would highly recommend it — it is truly amazing what it can do, how much information it can extract, and what it can do such as write grammatically and informationally accurate essays on academic topics.
There are so many worries and questions to answer, and many are commented on, or written about by many of others who are more qualified on the topic than I am, so I won’t approach them here but focus on some research that has recently been published about some fascinating aspects of AI, it’s limitations and strengths. Also what is just as, or more fascinating, is comparisons to the human brain and how these AI tools work.
But first you may wonder about my view of the abilities of Chat GPT?
Mixed, is my answer. Why? You may ask.
At the end of last year I was researching a new psychometric assessment I was developing and so posed ChatGPT (version 3.5) some questions on this topic. I promptly received a succinct, well formed summary of the standard research. Wow! I thought, that is amazing, and after posing a few more…
