Counting the "e's" in "ketchup": Bard's investigation.

A writer conducted an experiment to see if Google's large language model, Bard, could identify the letter "e" in the word "ketchup." The experiment revealed that language is not the same as knowledge and that intelligence precedes language. While chatbots like Bard can produce ad copy, they lack the intelligence and understanding of the world that humans possess. The article suggests that chatbots can be useful in illuminating the things about human intelligence that we take for granted.