We should aim to lead the field of artificial intelligence

ChatGPT's interactive interface that was made publicly accessible for testing and feedback has since gone viral on social media, with questions ranging from math problems to software programming source codes being generated by the AI tool. While ChatGPT has certain restrictions imposed on it, the viral social experiment underway through its interface raises several questions on how AI can potentially blur the lines between creative products resulting from human cognition and programmatically generated text that is almost human-like. The ease with which the AI tool is able to generate fiction in response to queries also poses questions on how to assess the truth quotient of artificially generated creative products. As an instance, when asked to compose an essay on events that may not have occurred historically, the AI tool got its dates mixed up. Fictional products from generative AI are perhaps less of a worry than students using it to draft project reports, solutions to assignments, and more.