Nothing can beat the human mind, not even ChatGPT, says Narayana Murthy

"I am a great believer in the theory that the human mind is the most powerful imagination, machine. There is nothing that can beat the human mind," said Narayana Murthy.

By  MoneycontrolApr 21, 2023 2:16 PM
Nothing can beat the human mind, not even ChatGPT, says Narayana Murthy
In March, while speaking on the sidelines of NASSCOM Technology and Leadership Forum 2023, Narayana Murthy described ChatGPT as a good thing. He detailed his rendezvous with the chatbot and said, "I have used ChatGPT. My son introduced me to it a few months ago. It provides you with the knowledge and then you can use it further as per your creativity." (Image source: Infosys)

The founder of Infosys, Narayana Murthy has been consistently vocal and strongly opinionated about ChatGPT. In an exclusive interview with CNBC, he, yet again, reiterated that nothing can beat the human mind — not even AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT.

"I am a great believer in the theory that the human mind is the most powerful imagination, machine. There is nothing that can beat the human mind," he said. Murthy said he believes the theory that the human mind is the most powerful imagination, machine. "There is nothing that can beat the human mind,” he said.

“But let’s remember, both you and I have access to the same ChatGPT,” he pointed out.

This is not the first time that Murthy expressed his views on Artificial Intelligence (AI) or ChatGPT. In March, while speaking on the sidelines of NASSCOM Technology and Leadership Forum 2023, Murthy described ChatGPT as a good thing. He detailed his rendezvous with the chatbot and said, "I have used ChatGPT. My son introduced me to it a few months ago. It provides you with the knowledge and then you can use it further as per your creativity."

“If there is a competition between you and me, you will use the ChatGPT output as your base, and then you will add your own differentiation, your own smartness, your own tweaking,” continued Murthy. “And that’s when the teachers will be much more impressed with you than with me.”

In recent times ChatGPT, the AI chatbot, has created a lot of buzz in the tech sector. People fear that this technology is powerful enough to replace humans in the coming future, causing more job loss and making human skills irrelevant

“The lazy guys will get C. Only smart people will get A,” said Murthy. "Even in 1977-78, there were programme generators that had come in and so everybody feared for jobs but that didn't happen. Because the human mind is the most flexible instrument. So, it was then used to help bigger problems with human creativity and tech together. And so, ChatGPT is a good one but we must use it as a base and then use it to show our creativity and solve bigger problems but be it ChatGPT or AI, it will never replace humans," he concluded.

First Published on Apr 21, 2023 2:16 PM

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