I asked ChatGPT, May 28 -- "Vaibhav Sooryavanshi missed breaking Chris Gayle's fastest IPL 100 record by a whisker. I want you to critically compare both innings and tell me which one you think was more explosive."

ChatGPT was asked to compare two of T20 cricket's most devastating innings. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's 97 off 29 balls. Chris Gayle's 175 not out off 66 balls. The AI drew a careful and important distinction immediately. One innings was more explosive. The other was simply greater. Those two things, ChatGPT insists, are not the same.

ChatGPT gives Vaibhav Sooryavanshi the explosiveness verdict based solely on pure numbers. A strike rate of 334.48 is almost impossible to process rationally. Twelve sixes. A fifty in just 16 balls....