No, AI will not outsmart us. Not even close.

Counting characters in a sentence should be an easy task for anyone, including computers. So, what happens when we ask chatGPT to do just that??

For the record, that is not the correct answer. The correct answer is 41.

Why can’t the most successful AI in the world get the right answer? Perhaps it miscalculated? Let’s ask it again.

While polite, it is again not correct.

Worse, when I assert the lie that the question had 55 characters (it does not, it has 41),?chatGPT will agree with this lie.

Worse still, when asked why it got it wrong, it will lie to covert its tracks:

In the second part, I will explain why this is happening. In the mean time, I invite you to research and try to discovering this on your own. I promise you, it will be a fulfilling experience and you will never look at AI the same way.