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[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 229 points 4 days ago

Am I supposed to be impressed? I have a PhD level intelligence and I am not exactly impressive.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 111 points 4 days ago

You missed what they meant. It means gpt5 is really good at one arbitrary and extremely specific topic. Anything else it's comparable with a random person on the street.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Anything else it's comparable with a random person on the street.

I'd say we're actually worse than the average person at everything else. Too much of our brain is allocated to our research.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

It does seem like there's an inverse correlation of general intelligence/common sense and specialized study.

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