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All aboard the hype train! We need to stop using the term “AI” for advanced auto complete. There is not even a shred of intelligence in this. I know many of the people here already know this, but how do we get this message to journalists?! The amount of hype being repeated by respectable journalists is sickening.
Too late, the journalists have been replaced by advanced auto completes already.
If you can be replaced by advanced autocomplete, you’re not really a “journalist”
GPT-10 will do my mom
A PhD makes a person knowledgeable, not intelligent. And GPT-4 was already extremely knowledgeable.
It’s even better at seeming knowledgeable about things that it may or may not be knowledgeable about.
What a bunch of bullshit. I’ve asked ChatGPT recently to do a morphological analysis of some Native American language’s very simple sentences, and it gave absolute nonsense as an answer.
And let’s be clear: It was an elementary linguistics task. Something that I did learn to do on my own by just doing a free course online.
Was it GPT 5?
If AI was that capable then using human workers would eventually become cost prohibitive. If we’re still stuck having to work to live under a capitalist system by then, there’s gonna be serious problems. A post-labor economy doesn’t need to charge for even a modestly comfortable standard of living, and the overwhelming majority of people will go looking for things to do no matter how many politicians swear otherwise.
Ah yes, ph.d intelligence, but the wisdom of a toddler.
mmm, unironically sounds like me. According to my iq test i had PhD level intelligence at 18, and what am i doing at 24? unemployed, playing video games, and crying
It’s alright, you can keep going for a bit, I’m about to hit 30 playing video-games and crying
I’m 30. Almost have a PhD.
Also playing video games and crying
Wait until you’re 40 talking about that IQ test like the Al Bundy of brains
nah IQ tests are more or less bullshit, they’re incredibly flawed and biased, only situation you’d see me talking about them at lenght is bashing the entire concept of trying to quantify general intelligence
Wisdom implys it has intelligence, it does not. It’s a word predictor.
but the wisdom of a toddler.
Sounds like an improvement to me lol
Book Smart Street Smart
They’ll give it all the social interaction and wisdom scraped from YouTube clips.
GPT-7 will have full-self-driving.
But that’s next year.You know the Chineese? They talk about this ChatPT 7. But we Americans. My uncle, very smart man. Smartest in every room except on Thanks Giving. I always had Thanks Giving and my Turkey, everyone loved my Turkey. He said we will soon have Chat 8 and the Chineese they know nothing like it.
I’m more interested if it can have empathy and give it something like a soul. Mostly so we don’t get murdered.
Wow… They want to give AI even more mental illness and crippling imposter syndrome to make it an expert in one niche field?
Sounds like primary school drop-out level thinking to me.
Now it can not only tell you to eat rocks, but also what type of rock would be best for your digestion.
No it won’t.
Yes it will
NO IT WON’T
YES IT WILL
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So copying everyone else’s work and rehashing it as your own is what makes a PhD level intelligence? (Sarcastic comments about post-grad work forthcoming, I’m sure)
Unless AI is able to come up with original, testable, verifiable, repeatable previously unknown associations, facts, theories, etc. of sufficient complexity it’s not PhD level…using big words doesn’t count either.
I look forward to when AI can extrapolate, rather than interpolate.
Having a PhD doesn’t say you’re intelligent. It says you’re determined & hardworking.
Eh. Maybe. but don’t discount those phds who were pushed through the process because their advisors were just exhausted by them. i have known too many 10th year students. They weren’t determined or hardworking. They simply couldn’t face up to their shit decisions, bad luck, or intellectual limits.
Pushed through? In my experience those candidates are encouraged to drop out.
There are practical matters, some quite controversial, that you aren’t considering.
Probably. What are you referring to exactly?
Let’s just say that demographics play a critical role in future grant applications.
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The fact that I have a PhD while I knew that I wouldn’t use it quickly after I begun, thus loosing years of my life is the proof that I’m dumb as a rock. Fitting for ChatGPT.
Is it weird that I still want to go for my PhD despite all the feedback about the process? I don’t think I’ve ever met a PhD or candidate that’s enthusiastically said “do it!”
No, not weird at all. PhD’s are pain, but certain people like the pain. If you’re good with handling stress, and also OK with working in a fast-paced, high-impact environment (for real, not business talk BS), then it may be the right decision for you. The biggest thing that I would say is that you should really, really think about whether this is what you want, since once you start a PhD, you’ve locked the next 6 years of your life into it with no chance of getting out
Edit: Also, you need to have a highly sensitive red-flag radar. As a graduate student, you are highly susceptible to abuse from your professor. There is no recourse for abuse. The only way to avoid abuse is by not picking an abusive professor from the get-go. Which is hard, since professors obviously would never talk badly about themselves. Train that red-flag radar, since you’ll need to really read between every word and line to figure out if a professor is right for you
It’s a lot of fucking work. If you enjoy hard work, learning about the latest advancements in your field, and can handle disappointment / criticism well, then it’s something to look into.
that and if you can find lab/group with recent publications and funding. not sticking too hard to failed ideas also helps
Having a shitload of money is also quite handy for such endeavors.
ideally not your money, but money from grants, that’s why i mentioned it
Ideally. Also if you’re in social science . . . ehh. It’s your money.
i mean, that’s the point that in the process grant money becomes your money
And best of luck to anyone who wants to try.
no it’s not. but you should know what you’re getting into.
in the beginning of my PhD i really loved what i was doing. from an intellectually point of view i still do. but later, i.e. after 3 years doing a shitty postdoc, i realized that I was not cut out for academia but nevertheless loved doing science.
however, i was lucky to find a place in industry doing what i like.
so i guess my 2c is: think about what comes after the PhD and work towards that goal. a PhD is usually not a goal in itself. hth
It’s like being drafted to a war while you only receive vague orders and you slowly realize what the phrase “war is a racket” means. You suffer and learn things that you didn’t plan on learning.
