Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and an illustration of GPT-4.
Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and an illustration of GPT-4.
  • ChatGPT may be tricking people into thinking it's smarter than it is.
  • Researchers found programmers often prefer ChatGPT's (wrong) answers on coding questions.
  • That's because ChatGPT sounds "articulate," they said.

ChatGPT seems to have had a lot of success in convincing people that it's smart. But what if it was actually duping them into thinking that?