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.
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.
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.
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sometimes they are outdated if they have been doing projects or research for a while too.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".
Well it's a phrase for those of "not-PhD" level.
That's ok. This is intended to people with clueless-decision-maker intelligence level.
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.
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
“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.
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