New Delhi, April 27 -- It has been many weeks since I googled anything. Not because I know everything now. I have moved to ChatGPT. A year ago, it would've been unthinkable to me that anything would replace Google Search, a two-decade-long habit of peering into a void of stuff.

In this triumph of ChatGPT, much is said about its conversational talent. But its ability to mimic a human chat is just a gimmick, no matter the great tech that went into it. It is a cultural artefact from a time when the 'Turing test' had value. Alan Turing, widely regarded as one of the fathers of AI, proposed that a machine could be said to be intelligent if its conversation was indistinguishable from that of a human.

That is an obsolete qualifier now.

In any...