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Lol, lmao even. (mander.xyz)
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[–] 210 points 10 months ago (26 children)

Am I supposed to be impressed? I have a PhD level intelligence and I am not exactly impressive.

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  • [–] 109 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    You missed what they meant. It means gpt5 is really good at one arbitrary and extremely specific topic. Anything else it's comparable with a random person on the street.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Anything else it's comparable with a random person on the street.

    I'd say we're actually worse than the average person at everything else. Too much of our brain is allocated to our research.

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  • [+] [S] 23 points 10 months ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I would like to see you count 1.33 + 3.25 on your fingers. 🙂

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I do that and I have a BS in mathematics. and in 4th grade I literally used to write "I hate math" at the top of my math homework. as much as primary education systems want it to be, computation speed is not mathematical aptitude. you can memorize multiplication tables up to 20, that's not gonna help you understand Cantor's theorem

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    At one point I had an audio book version of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman. One of Richard Feynman's memoirs, he avoids talking about his work for the most part and tells stories in oddly low-level English about the shenanigans he'd get up to in his off hours. The entire book sounds something like this:

    "One day I decided to go for a walk. I passed a bar. There was music playing in the bar, and people were dancing. It sounded great. I went inside to look at the girls. Their dancing looked great. I noticed one of the musicians was playing a little drum. I asked if I could try. He let me try the drum. It made a really interesting sound."

    At one point, he was in a bar, and was approached by an abacus salesman, who challenged him to a math race. The abacus easily bested Feynman's mental math in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, managed to outpace him in exponents and logarithms, and then it just so happened that as the math problems got harder, it just so happened that Feynman had the answers to the exact problems asked memorized, so it appeared he did them instantly in his head. Like by coincidence they asked the exact problem he'd spent the previous week calculating.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    LMAO right.

    This PhD = Genius trope needs to end.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    How much of that is the fault of colleges? All that shit about requiring science majors to take liberal arts classes or art majors taking calculus to make them "well rounded." A bachelor's degree is supposed to be a mark that you're just all around better educated than someone with a mere high school diploma, to the point that "It doesn't matter what you major in, just get a degree" is somehow valid advice. But a doctorate is awarded for a significant work of original research; a Ph. D. means you're the world's foremost expert in some tiny corner of a sub-discipline, kind of the opposite of being "well rounded."

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    But even then, knowledge ≠ intelligence.

    And there are plenty of fields that get it completely wrong.

    You could argue the majority of economics PhD’s get so stuck into the dominant model they might be less intelligent w.r.t. actual resource distribution than an amateur.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Right? I know more shit than some people on some topics…and less shit than other people on other topics.

    Expertise might be what they were going for…but they can’t say that because AI can’t have expertise on anything.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Expertise is about knowing what you don't know, just as much about what you know. The terms like "PhD level intelligence" are meant to mislead people. LLMs cannot understand simply because they are just statistical parrots. Only fools blindly trust output of LLMs.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    There’s a lot of a disagreement to be had here…but AI is a topic where we all pretty much seem to agree.

    I’ve experimented with AI (so-called chatbots) and the best that can be said about it is it’s a tool…not even a good tool…for starting a project when you’re stuck. It’s absolutely unreliable for anything approaching a final project. I guess…it’s really great if you enjoy being pissed off that it can both mine valid obscure information, while at the same time lie to your face over and over…but then do a 180 on something that’s true or a lie just because you tell it to.

    The only value I got out of AI was it made me laugh out loud once…genuinely. I realized it had created this entire fake universe when it was supposed to be researching something real…and like a crazy person I was scolding it…when it was apologing it told me “I’m sorry…I understand that I’m a bit like a toaster that was advertised as a chef…but really all I do is try to burn your house down”. I thought it was hilarious and appropriate.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I understand that I’m a bit like a toaster that was advertised as a chef…but really all I do is try to burn your house down

    This is a beautiful metaphor and I'm pissed that it came out of an LLM. Either this is a hilarious consequence of the word "toaster" often being followed by "burn your house", or someone else on the Internet came up with it and the LLM just regurgitated.

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