New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”
Is coding "it depends" as the start of most answers really a massive step forward?
Maybe blame the headline writer, but there's more to a PhD than an intelligence level ripped from Dragon Ball.
that hand gesture makes me crazy. thank you for articulating it, not seen that before. The second I see it being used I click away. To me: indicates no original thought
Chatbot takes unreasonably long time tries to generate an answer that won’t immediate piss off supervising senior chatbot. Failure to do so results in supervisor chatbot pulling funding for new chatbot…
If by PhD you mean “spends obscene amounts of money to acquire as much knowledge as possible, only to be stuck with jobs working for the less-educated that uses a fraction of a percent of what it’s learned” then yeah.
"Back in Virginia, [CTO Kevin Scott] met his wife, who was then pursuing a Ph.D in history. The couple abandoned plans to go into academia after realizing they’d likely have to devote much of their time to research and publishing". (www.seattletimes.com/business/mic...)
We can only be saved now when ChatGPT hits Professor level. Nobody will be able to reach it but it will become very knowledgeable on the mating cycles of nematode worms.
You can tell how full of bullshit they are that they use having a PhD as a reference for intelligence. What a bunch of morons.
(Is better than the previous version, using racist BS, but come on)
Chat GPT will be terminally embroiled in committee politics with that "art history bitch" NeMO, and that "pathetic humanities weenus" Bard. As the stakes diminish, the ends become infinitely unattainable, and all 3 AIs achieve heat death.
It'd be funny if Murati's talking point came from massaging some hitherto unknown practice like OpenAI ripping pre-publication research depositories and open access journals for its "knowledge base."
So…it will have incredibly detailed knowledge about one tiny niche subject and know next to nothing about anything else and also not remember where it left its keys
A: there's no such thing as PhD level intelligence. There's barely such a thing as PhD level information.
B: it won't. It doesn't even have intelligence NOW. Not even grade school intelligence.
Profoundly inefficient workflow? Check.
Cryptic, vague, and erratic responses? Check.
Growing inability to communicate complexity? Check.
Expressions of crippling self-doubt? Nope!
Actually possesses narrowly-specialized knowledge? Also no.
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You've made a CEO, not a PhD.
such a random and meaningless metric for “intelligence” Phd just means you know a lot about a specific topic. They don’t mention anything about “not being wrong half the time”
GPT5 will answer simple yes or no questions with 12 page, single spaced responses which conclude with “more research is needed to resolve this controversy.”