Why ChatGPT failed PSLE miserably but passed prestigious law exams

Generative AI shows the need to develop a new kind of digital literacy, and the value of trusting users to experiment with it.

A glimpse at the literature on artificial intelligence shows why the technology sometimes makes laughable blunders.  ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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If you are a knowledge worker, perhaps you breathed a sigh of relief when you read in The Straits Times that ChatGPT performed miserably on questions from the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE).

Perhaps you’ve chuckled at screenshots of ChatGPT’s factual errors, its calculation mistakes and its logical lapses. 

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