When I was a young boy, I was enthralled by the Bengali stories that the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray wrote. I was reminded of one of Ray’s science fiction stories, Compu, published in 1978, when I thought about OpenAI’s newest chatbot, ChatGPT, which is based on an autoregressive language model that employs deep learning to produce impressively detailed and human-like writing.
In Compu, Professor Shonku, an eccentric super-scientist, collaborated with other scientists to create a chatbot-like spherical computer brain with millions of delicate circuits. They, however, unintentionally created an AI or Artificial Intelligence in Compu. In those pre-Google days, of
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