SINGAPORE – ChatGPT may be hailed as the gold standard among chatbots in the mainstream but The Straits Times has found that the Primary School Leaving Examination is too big a challenge for the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. ST pitted ChatGPT against pupils who sat the PSLE over the last three years. Questions were obtained from the latest compilation of past year papers, available in bookshops. E-paper with 2-week archive so you won't miss out on content that matters to you Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.

A tense scene in the 2004 movie iRobot shows the character played by Will Smith arguing with an android about humanity's creative prowess. "Can a robot write a symphony?" he asks, rhetorically. "Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?" E-paper with 2-week archive so you won't miss out on content that matters to you Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.