By skyforbes 
Machines are that student who can perfect every answer but forget how to think beyond them.
Have you ever asked ChatGPT ‘Is there a seahorse emoji?’ and then looked it up on Google? You’ll notice a difference: Google shows the exact seahorse emoji images while ChatGPT often returns random descriptions or snippets instead of the precise emoji. Why is that?
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I was half asleep filling out my master’s application after work struggling to remember what made me interesting beyond grades. Two things came to mind: writing on Medium or leading the Literary Club. I was too tired to take out files from almirah, check them one by one so I asked an AI to help me recall what I had done.
It gave me back what I told. It said for leadership column mention you lead the club, you increased the number of students or published this article just revolving around it. Not even a simple question “Do you cook?” or “Ever played a sport?” I didn’t expect imagination; I expected a nudge toward something I had missed.
This irritating time consuming words made me wonder whether these systems can truly create beyond what we tell. Before I could dig into that I came across a strange case a…