I think you missed the argument about the two Roman Empire books. ChatGPT was clearly trained on them, or at least metadata about them, yet it couldn't produce

I think you missed the argument about the two Roman Empire books. ChatGPT was clearly trained on them, or at least metadata about them, yet it couldn't produce an intuitive response about their relationship. And it couldn't even return the top search result that explained it. Sure, these issues will be fixed eventually, but the point of the article is that it can't replace the thinking of a student to write a quality essay. It might be able to regurgitate search results which will need to be fact checked, so at best it's useful as a research tool. BTW, Bing's AI is a really poor counterexample, as it can't even return search results reliably.