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ChatGPT: Why we're still smarter than machines

ChatGPT has been hailed as a game-changer. It can write songs, give you investment advice and define complex physics.

Impressive right? Computers seem to be rapidly outsmarting their creators. But is that really true? Not quite, as neuroscientist Ori Ossmy of Birkbeck, University of London explains.

Produced by Melissa Hogenboom

Edit by Andy Brownstone

9 November 2023
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