Here's why AI like ChatGPT probably won't reach humanlike understanding

This type of artificial intelligence isn’t good at applying what it learns to new situations
As impressive as they seem, the latest computer brains usually can’t apply all the many things that they know to situations that differ from those they encountered in training. This, however, comes easily to us.
If you ask ChatGPT whether it thinks like a human, this chatbot will tell you that it doesn’t. “I can process and understand language to a certain extent,” ChatGPT writes. […]
Here's why AI like ChatGPT probably won't reach humanlike understanding