I've met plenty of Ph.D.s that were pretty dumb. So that figures.
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PhD in what?
pizza hut delivery.
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
GPT 5 will have ‘Ph.D.-level’ psychopathy
FTFY.
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When they achieve any intelligence it will be a milestone. Right now they just have scripts that regurgitates word salads.
... at 9 AM on a Saturday morning.
Dartmouth has a PhD in Dumbassery?
What’s intelligent about getting deep into debt and using up years of your life to get into niche work you can only do in a handful of locations, if you’re lucky?
Sometimes we don’t value stable career or steady income as highly as other pursuits.
I wouldn’t say it’s not intelligent. Just different priorities.
I admire anyone brave and idealistic enough to commit to academia or culture or any similarly less lucrative and extremely uncertain path. Takes some resilience and big balls. You are almost guaranteed to lose a lot of the comforts available to others with that. And yet, they still do it. And we are all better for it. The world is better for it.
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So it will be an absolute genius about some very narrow field, and spout complete drivel about literally everything else?
Do I get to choose the PhD? Because an LLM that's like, a biblical scholar or something, won't help me very much.
Except for 'genius'. A PhD meant you will likely be extremely well 'informed' about a specific topic in a very narrow field. So well informed that you will be able to come up with 'something' worth saying even to others that are well informed in that same field. It's a pretty low bar with an extremely high motivation/focus/effort requirement.
I think it's similar to a job we were hiring for that was essentially cold calling companies too sell licenses for Microsoft. To apply you were required to have a BA. A BA in what, you might ask? Well that didn't even make it onto the form we used. It was just a checkbox. It was literally a gauge to see if you'd been able to stick through a program like that.
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