I would guess he couldn't conceive the concept of a computer, a machine immeasurably more complex than anything he has seen before, considering he even has trou

I would guess he couldn't conceive the concept of a computer, a machine immeasurably more complex than anything he has seen before, considering he even has trouble understanding a lighter. To him, ChatGPT would just be a mystery the same way the computer was one. Not because he is stupid, just because he completely lacks a frame of reference, the same way our children today would be stumped by a rotary wheel telephone or a vinyl cylinder, or our Area51-esque scientist not able to understand a truly alien spacecraft. Every sufficiently developed technology is indistinguishable from magic, yada yada