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Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better
(indianexpress.com)
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That would still give it too much credit in that case. It's purely an input output system. You put text in (the prompt), you get text out (the result). If there is no input from you, there is no output. It doesn't have any intrinsic functionality that runs on its own.
Maybe a bit too much for an ELI5.