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[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 71 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ph.Deez nutz.

I have friends who actually have a Ph.D. It takes many years to get one and an attempt to actually better a field. People tend to trust your opinion on a subject when you have a doctorate in that field.

I can't even trust ChatGPT to answer a basic question without fucking up and apologizing to me, only to fuck up again.

Maybe stop treating language models like AGI? They're awesome at recognizing semantic similarities between words and phrases (embeddings) as well as generating arbitrary but reasonable looking output that matches an expected output (structured outputs). That's cool enough. Stop pretending like it isn't and falsely advertising it as being able to cure cancer and world hunger, especially when you wouldn't even be happy if it did.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 24 points 4 days ago

AI as it sits is a tool that has specific use cases. It is absolutely not intelligence, as it's commonly marketed. It may seem intelligent to the uninformed, but boy howdy is that a mistake.

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's a sad reflection of our current state when being able to string together coherent sentences is impressive enough to many as to be confused with truth and/or intelligence.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

It wasn't that long ago that it was unfathomable for anything other than humans to be able to do this.

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Polly want a cracker" has been around since before anyone alive today was born, and that's the same thing as what LLMs are doing in essence (mimicking human speech), but no one was taking advice from parrots.

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I had the Blueberry talk with GPT5:

🎓 PhB level checks out.
🚫 Blockchain level uselessness and waste as well.

🎈📌💥

[-] limerod@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

Well, it answers correctly in my case.

Yep — blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention."

... I hate this technology so fucking much...

Also, it trying to gaslight you into believing bluebberry is real was very funny.

[-] 0xtero@beehaw.org 47 points 4 days ago

ChatGPT in its PhD thesis defense: "Oh, I'm sorry for the misinformation, let me try this again..."

[-] Correct316@monero.town 1 points 3 days ago

LOL!! 🤣 Yes! This exactly!

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 51 points 4 days ago

If I asked a PhD, "How many Bs are there in the word 'blueberry'?" They'd call an ambulance for my obvious, severe concussion. They wouldn't answer, "There are three Bs in the word blueberry! I know, it's super tricky!"

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don’t feel this is a good example of why LLMs shouldn’t be treated like PhDs.

My first interactions with gpt5 have been pretty awful, and I’d test it but it’s not available to me anymore

Edit: I am not having a stroke, I’m bad at typing and autocorrect hates me

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 3 points 3 days ago
[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

BlackBerry toast

[-] darreninthenet@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

FWIW, ChatGPT 5 gets this correct

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 3 points 3 days ago
[-] limerod@reddthat.com -1 points 2 days ago

You appear to be using the older gpt model. The newer model calculates and answers correctly for most words at least for the few I asked

[-] mbtrhcs@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

It literally says 5 in the screenshot but ok

[-] limerod@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

I saw that. I'm using the mobile app. There's a possibility the web version is using an inferior model.

[-] darreninthenet@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

It did for me 🤷🏻‍♂️

[-] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 4 days ago

Just Conmen selling their snake oil

[-] Correct316@monero.town 2 points 3 days ago

Have to agree with this. My experience with the various AI models is that they're fairly terrible. I really don't want to see this garbage driving cars where lives are at stake.

[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"It can now drive its users straight into an active psychosis 35% faster by sounding more persuasive than ever before!"

[-] mormund@feddit.org 28 points 4 days ago

Didn't he claim that with 4ó as well? But yes please inflate the bubble further, blow everything up.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago

just one more iteration, i swear it's PHD level this time

JUST ONE MORE ITERATION PLEASE

[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 4 days ago

I could power a data center with the rolling of my eyes after reading this headline.

OpenAI claims a lot of things.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 13 points 3 days ago

This guy always shows up with his hands like this in news photos

I know it's irrelevant but I had to point it out

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago

Maybe a PhD in civil engineering lol.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 9 points 3 days ago

Oops i ate the onion.

Right? No way thats considered a legitimate argument since a PhD just says you dedicated yourself to a very specific topic and arent necessarily smarter or better spoken for it.
Or is he just bragging he found a way to filter it to just people's PhD thesis papers that they stole?

[-] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 days ago

I mean, that doesn't really mean much, given that you don't have to be very intelligent to get one. It's mostly an endurance exercise and often a test how much frustration and uncertainty you can take in your life.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 days ago

How many ChatGPhDs will it take to do the math on how long it is until this bubble pops?

[-] Correct316@monero.town 2 points 3 days ago

Shouldn't be hard to improve over this rubbish:

is it now 15 years after 2010 ?

GPT-4 No, it is not 15 years after 2010. As of today, August 8, 2025, it is 15 years after 2010.>

[-] limerod@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

The gpt-5 model answers this correctly.

this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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