To obtain a PhD, you need to contribute something original to your field of study, not just regurgitate what you’ve scraped from other studies.
ceos are so obsessed with this and thinking it can replace doctors in diagnosing people too.
Maybe not replace, but some flavour of AI is already pretty good at analyzing patterns on x-ray images and stuff like that which might be significant help to doctors in the future. Obviously not the glorified autocorrect Altman is running with hype-money, but actually useful neural network things (or whatever they really are, I’m not one building them).
Narrow models trained on a task specific data set tend to be very good at their specialization. So protien folding, or material sciences have benefitted from machine learning, but we shouldn’t mistake that for being the same thing as chatGPT.
One of the bigger problems we have with AI at the moment (in my very inexpert opionion) is that they seem to be trying to throw LLMs at every problem and swearing that it’ll achieve AGI soon.
Meanwhile Alpha Fold is more closely related to stable diffusion than it is to ChatGPT.
Also a PhD is an expert in a hyper specific niche area of their specialty. Would I trust someone who has a PhD in astrophysicist with an expertise on black holes. When it comes to talking about black holes? Yes.
Would I trust that person to give me medical advice? Probably not. Would I trust them to help me show basic car maintenance? Maybe and only because they have experience with car maintenance not because of a PhD.
If it spouts out enough nonsense something will be right eventually
GPT5 is gonna monkey a new hamlet? ITS GONNA BE THE BLURST OF TIMES?
I guess given enough hardware and environmental destruction everything is possible.
ITS GONNA BE THE BLURST OF TIMES?
You stupid AI.
I wonder whether any LLMs are any good at hypothesis generation
1000 monkeys with typewriters comes to mind
probably not, it will like scrape from sources that arnt even based on research, or research papers, if its allowed to use the internet it will probably process opinions too.
I know at least one Ph. D. where this could very well be true.
Ha, I know several.
P. S. About to have a PhD myself
I feel like I’ve been hearing this stupid “PhD level intelligence” claim about every LLM that’s come out since ChatGPT was first released, including GPT-3.0 which it launched with. It kind of amazes me that people keep falling for it and not questioning how the new model having “PhD level intelligence” is both a true claim and also noteworthy when the claim is made about every new model.
Iv met enough phd holders to know that they can and frequently are still unabashedly wrong on the vast majority of everything they talk about that isn’t hyper specific to a narrow and niche topic.
So phd level intelligence to me just means it’s more prone to the being confidently wrong and judgemental.
sometimes they are outdated if they have been doing projects or research for a while too.
It will analyze and parse primary sources with all the discernment of a pure math PhD! Design bridges with all the insight of a literature PhD! Diagnose medical problems with all the experience of a supreme court justice!
Sam Altman wants to raise babies using AI.
Never forget.
Literally the plot of a Neal Stephenson novel.
And the point was you still needed a fucking parent to turn out sane.
GPT5 was an effort by OpenAI to reduce costs. It is not smarter than the latest GPT4 models.
Because they are unable to make it smarter
If they could have made it smarter they would have
There are models smarter than GPT5.
PhD is not even a “level of intelligence”.
That’s ok. This is intended to people with clueless-decision-maker intelligence level.
PhD level of sufficiently regular but transient discipline and hyperfocus.
Why is that image giving the same vibes as:
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Disney contract.
just looks like a fusion of these 2(scarlet witch)
Based on the fact that they’d give someone like me a PhD, this comes as no surprise. But it’s not saying as much about GPT-5 as a lot of people might think.
As someone who has a PhD and self identifies as a dumbass I can confidently say, it is not a high bar
does that mean it’s also going to have PhD-level depression?
I know a dude with a PhD in Computer Science who’s far-right and his sister is a psychiatrist who thinks conversion therapy works lol lmao
This just shows that there is no correlation between beliefs and intelligence. The knowledge you obtain gets applied on top of your belief system, often times doesn’t change your beliefs. I have a couple of doctor friends and I wouldn’t go to 1 of them if my life depended on it. She graduated from a Caribbean med school and is your typical maga.
many doctors are just really good at regurgitating information they gathered in their 20’s, they’re not particularly inspired in their field of study or stay up-to-date on all the latest information. they just got into the work because it appeared to be a stable well-paying job, simple as
then are entire fields compromised by $ and short-sightedness, like podetry. modern feet have so many problems because modern shoes are just…terrible, but podiatrists make a bunch of $ peddling “arch support”, special shoes/inserts etc.
the foot-arch comes from a muscle, muscles atrophy when you when support them…all you need to do to get arches back is wear flat-soled shoes (this hurts, if you’ve not worn them…ever, as those muscles have barely been used)
Also it is a reminder that an expert in something is not generally an expert in anything else, and anything they’re not expert in they’re only as good at it as the average person of the same intelligence and education
And let’s not forget the avg person is dumb as rocks. All of us included.
“Intelligence” is such a dumb word.
Yes. “PhD” level intelligence. Not PhD level intelligence. The quotes are part of the word. They are not optional.
No no. “Ph.D.” stands for “Phillip Dick”, an old drinking pal of Sam Altman. According to some interviews, you can ask him pretty much anything and get a response.
PhD level intelligence
Which PhD’s, exactly?
Yes, that matters quite a lot, actually.
I’m not underestimating PhDs, I do think you have to be inteligente to get it, BUT you can also get one if you have a great memory. Good Memory and Inteligence are different. I think Chat GPT will hace a great memory but that doesn’t make it inteligent
