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John-Anthony Disotto

If ChatGPT can be fooled by this simple optical illusion, why should I trust it with anything else?

AI brain coming out of laptop screen.

Read OpenAI's marketing or listen to a quote from the company's CEO, Sam Altman, and you'd be forgiven for thinking ChatGPT is the most powerful, most efficient, most impressive technology we've ever seen.

Don't get me wrong, ChatGPT and other AI chatbots like Gemini and Perplexity are seriously impressive, but unravel the layers like an onion and you start to realise that they aren't quite as capable of sorting every single life's problem as their creators would have you believe.

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