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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.
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?
“Intelligence” is such a dumb word.
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.
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.
I wonder whether any LLMs are any good at hypothesis generation
1000 monkeys with typewriters comes to mind
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.
Dartmouth has a PhD in Dumbassery?
does that mean it’s also going to have PhD-level depression?
Why is that image giving the same vibes as:
why do they look like gelflings?
Disney contract.
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.
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
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.
I hate the way the media makes this problem so much worse by incorrectly describing LLMs. They can’t “have intelligence”. They are incapable of any kind of thought. The “intelligence” of GPT1 and GPT5 are the same, in that neither have any. They are complex computational algorithms designed to generate text from prompts. That is absolutely not the same thing as thinking or knowing things.
There are entire cults springing out of the ground believing LLMs to literally be thinking feeling beings 💀 we are so beyond fucked.
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You can say the same thing about an ant or a slug. I don’t think the philosophy of what intelligence is is as cut and dry as what you say.
I agree they’re pretty stupid, but I wouldn’t say they’re zero on a scale of zero to human. If an llm type algorithm happens to be some part of the human intelligence algorithm then an llm has some fraction of intelligence
PhDs themselves aren’t very smart. They’re just sheets of paper. 🤷♂️
Is a thing smart if it holds knowledge?
Have you ever seen the degrees in professor’s office? None of them are level
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.
Intelligence or Hallucinations?
What drug do I need to take to get PhD level hallucinations? The ones I’ve had so far are at best GED level.
Be an alcoholic for a few decades?
RIP
