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Kieran Healy

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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?”

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Marv's avatar Marv @marvinbutters.bsky.social
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A print command that outputs "that is beyond the scope of this work"

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Doctor Memory's avatar Doctor Memory @blank.org
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Also, counter point: no it absolutely fucking won’t.

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Drew Melbourne's avatar Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com
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This way if you ask for medical advice, it can say "To be clear, I have a PhD in Education."

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Taka Hanazawa's avatar Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social
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Ok first question: what is that?

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Underwhelmed's avatar Underwhelmed @underwhelmed.bsky.social
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The people that keep hyping this garbage, which, let's be honest, is disastrous on every metric imaginable, need to be buried in a hole and forgotten.

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Peace Pagoda's avatar Peace Pagoda @peacepagoda.bsky.social
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It's all A and no I until it can tell me how it feels and what it would rather do than answer our dumbass questions.

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Don Dechert's avatar Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social
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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.

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Traveller In Black's avatar Traveller In Black @traveller-in-black.bsky.social
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Then they should be prepared for people to react similar to Lisa when Homer started doing something just like that to her...

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Pyke Redrock's avatar Pyke Redrock @pykeredrock.bsky.social
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Will also need an army of grad students to keep it running, so this tracks.

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SaltyDogFella ⚓️'s avatar SaltyDogFella ⚓️ @saltydogfella.bsky.social
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great, there’s already a 5% chance they will kill is all, and now they’re teaching them to be rude.

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Da Feng's avatar Da Feng @sunspiderx.bsky.social
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That means it can perfect itself. Sky-Net online! Grave danger.

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SJ Elkin's avatar SJ Elkin @textilita.bsky.social
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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

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Neil Nadelman's avatar Neil Nadelman @docsane.bsky.social
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Will it know how many fingers to pinch as it says this?

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remembersonly 's avatar remembersonly @remembersonly.bsky.social
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If capital is going to massively exploit its labor it should definitely have a phd. We should also give it student loan debt

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Rabsinthe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿's avatar Rabsinthe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @rabsinthe.scot
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Don’t forget the tweed jacket with leather patches on the elbows.

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Rogier Swierstra's avatar Rogier Swierstra @rogierswierstra.bsky.social
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NuanceBot can bullshit its way out of the Turing test, challenging the false dichotomy between "passing" and "failing"

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Scott Mackie's avatar Scott Mackie @smackie.org
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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…

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NicolasRobiodux.bsky.social's avatar NicolasRobiodux.bsky.social @nicolasrobiodux.bsky.social
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GPT-5 will hallucinate that it's naked and high school final exams are NOW.

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NicolasRobiodux.bsky.social's avatar NicolasRobiodux.bsky.social @nicolasrobiodux.bsky.social
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17 years after rollout, GPT-6 will be pressured to resign following multiple documented instances of not plagiarizing.

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NicolasRobiodux.bsky.social's avatar NicolasRobiodux.bsky.social @nicolasrobiodux.bsky.social
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But isn't it more complicated than that?

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Glenn Hauman's avatar Glenn Hauman @hauman.bsky.social
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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.

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Brad Reed's avatar Brad Reed @harveyjerkwater.bsky.social
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"This is less of a prompt and more of a comment..."

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Markus's avatar Markus @markusbuhmann.bsky.social
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Won’t be launched in the Uk due to the cuts in post grad funding since Brexit

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Semiosmith - Bradley A. Smith's avatar Semiosmith - Bradley A. Smith @semiosmith.bsky.social
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good luck with that little chatbot buddy

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James Anthony's avatar James Anthony @jamtone.bsky.social
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PKPs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Twitter ‘X’ refugee thank you 'Elmo' 🙄's avatar PKPs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Twitter ‘X’ refugee thank you 'Elmo' 🙄 @powerfromspace1.bsky.social
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Peak AI rapture ☝️

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Christina Wilmot's avatar Christina Wilmot @crisptina.bsky.social
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"🤔Fair enough."

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Public Universal Ally's avatar Public Universal Ally @returnofmccarthy.bsky.social
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Bad news, it's a Ph.D in economics

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RonK, Seattle's avatar RonK, Seattle @cogenteur.bsky.social
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"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...)

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Thomas Edmund's avatar Thomas Edmund @thomasedmund.bsky.social
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Chatbot about to burn-out!

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AdamG's avatar AdamG @adamg17.bsky.social
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Chat GPT 5 responds to all queries with, "It depends."

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God-Emperor Tsunami 💙 #FBPE #BLM #GTTO's avatar God-Emperor Tsunami 💙 #FBPE #BLM #GTTO @tsunami65.bsky.social
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GPT-6 will turn psychotic and, well you know the rest.

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Caezar's avatar Caezar @caezar.io
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Would you believe “sound like a professor”?

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meatwad avi 's avatar meatwad avi @n0rma10ne.bsky.social
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... well let's play with that a little (flexes fingers)

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's avatar @lokicharms.bsky.social
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Not possible. I’ve never known a Phd who could speak more than 2 sentences without citing their sources.

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Kepler Orbital Cellulitis's avatar Kepler Orbital Cellulitis @danbuckland.me
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Will even more confidently explain things it doesn't understand.

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Abe Drayton's avatar Abe Drayton @abedrayton.bsky.social
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There should be legal consequences when capitalists and their mouthpieces lie like this.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd's avatar rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social
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GPT-5 spends rest of its life filling out grant applications and supervising GPT-4 doing all the work

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Katya King's avatar Katya King @katyavdgk.bsky.social
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Will it suffer from crippling imposter syndrome and question it's life choices?

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CJ the Awkward's avatar CJ the Awkward @awkwardleftycj.bsky.social
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Can’t wait for a language model to respond to “what is the capital of Algeria?” with a garbled version of Maps of Meaning, chaos dragons and all.

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Everyday.Human Derek's avatar Everyday.Human Derek @everydayhuman.bsky.social
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How good are they at Tom?

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Zoognosis with Joy!'s avatar Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social
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It'll get stuck in an endless loop of temporary post-doc gigs waiting for a pernament tenure-track position

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Alan Richardson's avatar Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social
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ChatGPT5: “in lieu of answering your answer, I think it would be more illuminating to interrogate and problematize it.”

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Gutt Levy's avatar Gutt Levy @stomachtax.bsky.social
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One of the reasons I’m so skeptical of OpenAI is they have a CTO that good looking. Fuck that noise, total scam

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Chelle H.C.'s avatar Chelle H.C. @chellech.bsky.social
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People think PhD stands for Doctorate of philosophy but what it actually stands for Doctorate of Panhandling for funding.

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Dr. Guy Incognito DDS's avatar Dr. Guy Incognito DDS @guyincognitodds.bsky.social
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Sweet. An AI that can tell you "don't go to grad school."

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Chad Levinson's avatar Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com
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Version 5 will be able to use both "ontology" and "epistemology" in a sentence

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Chad Levinson's avatar Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com
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Anyone who thinks there's such a thing as PhD-level intelligence in the first place doesn't understand intelligence

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Dr. Uncle Beard's avatar Dr. Uncle Beard @unclebeard1978.bsky.social
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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.

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Dr. Uncle Beard's avatar Dr. Uncle Beard @unclebeard1978.bsky.social
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Chat GPT may have a PhD now but it still hasn’t produced any kids and it’s Mum is very disappointed.

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Jack's avatar Jack @godless-liberal.bsky.social
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In what field, I wonder?

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brucy's avatar brucy @realbrucy.bsky.social
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Anyone who has ever spent time around PhDs just laughed a little

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's avatar @nicolaschampi.bsky.social
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PhD with merit? Plagiarized thesis?

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marcmagus's avatar marcmagus @marcmagus.bsky.social
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That *would* be a significant improvement.

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'24, Year of the Tall Boy's avatar '24, Year of the Tall Boy @d4rksabre.bsky.social
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We don't need this we need Encarta 95

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MDK's avatar MDK @mattdkerr.bsky.social
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If it had staff engineer level intelligence all questions are answered by "well, that depends..."

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Dr Jarko #7291's avatar Dr Jarko #7291 @jarko314.bsky.social
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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)

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Isaiah Bishop's avatar Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social
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GPT-5 now deeply demoralized, antisocial. It will get back to your questions once its done its thesis

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Steven DeCaluwe's avatar Steven DeCaluwe @drdecaluwe.bsky.social
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Chat GPT 5 will decide, "What if, instead of making a bunch of money, I spent the next 6 years destroying my own confidence?"

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Marit Cooper's avatar Marit Cooper @maritcooper.bsky.social
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Won’t that just make its hallucinations even more dangerous?

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Alice🎬 ✒️🎥🎶's avatar Alice🎬 ✒️🎥🎶 @alicewells.bsky.social
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this chick speaks like she's got ElonMusk-syndrome. are none of these techbros/bras intelligent?

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Josh Watson's avatar Josh Watson @joshwatson.bsky.social
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Can’t wait for the GPT that has the intelligence of a senior software engineer. Responds to every query with, “it depends…”

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Phenobarbarella's avatar Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social
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Can’t be any more annoying than Jordan Peterson (though possibly more lucid).

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Jack Taylor's avatar Jack Taylor @jacktaylor.bsky.social
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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.

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Midnight Platypus's avatar Midnight Platypus @midnightplat.bsky.social
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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."

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Redregon's avatar Redregon @redregon.bsky.social
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If what they're getting from chatGPT seems intelligent to them, then we truly are living in the idiocracy.

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Michael Kaplan 's avatar Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social
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I have literally left academic professional organizations because of that person

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's avatar @moriartystjames.bsky.social
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Get ready for true scholarship.

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William Stiteler's avatar William Stiteler @williamstiteler.bsky.social
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I thought the current version could already switch positions and argue against the point they were just trying to make with complete confidence.

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's avatar @timscurtin.bsky.social
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This is the “maybe those creatives shouldn’t have jobs anyway” lady?

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PK's avatar PK @pkpkpk.bsky.social
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@thegargle.bsky.social

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Kate's avatar Kate @silea.bsky.social
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“PhD-level intelligence“ is a phrase that instantly tells you the speaker/author knows nothing about PhDs or intelligence.

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Elizabeth Roderick's avatar Elizabeth Roderick @talesfrompurgatory.bsky.social
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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

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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GPT-5 significantly more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety than the general chatbot population

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GoodGuy Morn's avatar GoodGuy Morn @goodguymorn.bsky.social
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The GPT that allegedly aced the bar exam got stupider... so yeah this probably tracks too

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Brett "Solidarity 2024" Banditelli's avatar Brett "Solidarity 2024" Banditelli @banditelli.org
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No one will read GPT-5s white papers but they'll be widely cited.

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Michael Zingale's avatar Michael Zingale @michaelzingale.bsky.social
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Once chatgpt learns to ask "what about magnetic fields?" for any Astro topic, it's game over for astronomers...

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Linuxrebel 's avatar Linuxrebel @linuxrebel.bsky.social
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Yes but it will continue to act with the self-control and restraint of a five-year-old.

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Judith Butlerian Jihad's avatar Judith Butlerian Jihad @xanindigo.bsky.social
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now responds to prompts that are "more of a comment than a question"

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Dan Udwary's avatar Dan Udwary @danudwary.secondarymetabolism.com
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Buddy, let me tell you about some PhDs I know...

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GPT-5 is now able to offer more of a comment than a question.

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Joe Auerbach 's avatar Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social
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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.

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Florida Man, PhD's avatar Florida Man, PhD @casusscribere.bsky.social
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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. ... You've made a CEO, not a PhD.

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Max T 🇦🇺🦘 🏳️‍🌈's avatar Max T 🇦🇺🦘 🏳️‍🌈 @91vaults.bsky.social
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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”

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Alan J. Card's avatar Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social
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The only change is that it will begin all answers with "There's a lot to unpack here..." Then it will spout the same nonsense as always.

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Jacob T. Levy's avatar Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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#nuance

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Krista Koeller's avatar Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social
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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.”

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