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IIT Director Calls ChatGPT "Dumb"

5 March  2024

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With rapid rise in artificial intelligence tools, like ChatGPT, several people are worried about the loss of jobs

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Experts too have sounded caution and as per a World Economic Forum report, 85 million jobs would be lost to AI worldwide by 2025

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But IIT Mandi Director Laxmidhar Behera called AI a "hype" saying tools like ChatGPT are not innately cognitive

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He said in an interview that ChatGPT is dumb and doesn't understand the concept. Instead, it just gathers information from voluminous data

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Mr Behera added that artificial intelligence is not at a stage where it can really educate students 

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The educationist said that AI can probably give a finishing touch, but the core engineering discipline cannot be replaced by it

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"None of the AI system are innately cognitive. They depend on huge architecture and database to make things possible," said Mr Behera

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He also said that the new technologies cannot do research

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The director is known for his contribution to areas such as intelligent systems and control, vision-based robotics and brain-computer-interface

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