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.

LMAO right.

This PhD = Genius trope needs to end.

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.

ceos are so obsessed with this and thinking it can replace doctors in diagnosing people too.

Also a PhD is an expert in a hyper specific niche area of their specialty. Would I trust someone who has a PhD in astrophysicist with an expertise on black holes. When it comes to talking about black holes? Yes.

Would I trust that person to give me medical advice? Probably not. Would I trust them to help me show basic car maintenance? Maybe and only because they have experience with car maintenance not because of a PhD.

I wonder whether any LLMs are any good at hypothesis generation

And slave labor, not only to build the hardware, but to view the mountains of CSAM and other heinous material to build the "guardrails"

What drug do I need to take to get PhD level hallucinations? The ones I've had so far are at best GED level.

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.

PhD level of sufficiently regular but transient discipline and hyperfocus.

To be honest, as I chat with more and more random strangers these days it does begin to dawn on me that we all do roughly spend ~70 years on this planet devoting our attention to one thing or another, and that though people might not have what is seen as "classical intelligence" (i.e. high IQ's, political savvy, high empathy / sociopathy, etc.), we are genuinely absolute genius's in one particular field or another.

For example, I had an old roommate whose politics would make me drink and stare at the horizon whilst he consistently acted against his own self interests to punish people he was told are responsibly for his financial lot in life. But, he was an absolute wizard when it came to predicting the outcome of a sports game. It could be anything - football, hockey, tennis, whatever - he immediately ran their stats straight off the top off his head, summarized their strengths and weaknesses and came out with an outcome that was on the whole close to the truth.

Another example, my ex. We never really had deep philosophical discussions about the state of the world, and her consumerist lifestyle was one I tried to actively ignore. But, she was incredible at turning a house into a home -- her interior design skills would genuinely surprise me at how well-thought out and in-depth they were, not only in terms of style and decor, but also in the way that she would execute and coordinate the tasks with me to beautify our home.

TL;DR -- I do really think most people have high intelligence in one specific field or another, we just value people unequally using classical measures of success (wealth, education)

... or the money to go on that journey

Yes! But I still have cancer

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

Is a thing smart if it holds knowledge?

Ha, I know several.

P. S. About to have a PhD myself

Literally the plot of a Neal Stephenson novel.

And the point was you still needed a fucking parent to turn out sane.

Because they are unable to make it smarter

If they could have made it smarter they would have

They’re selling billionaires a bridge to nowhere; and it’s working.

That's just wealth redistribution /s

Those space construction startups know what they’re doing. They’re selling billionaires a bridge to nowhere; and it’s working.

Guess I should have gone CHA instead of INT.
I might have gotten some of that billionaire money to buy more RAM.

They’re selling billionaires a bridge to nowhere; and it’s working.

Look, I'm not saying it's a good thing. In fact, it would be an insanely wasteful use of resources, labor, energy, etc.

That said, folks are all about "eat the rich" and this may very well be the closest thing to that.

So for a kilowatt and 300K with a poor quality radiator (0.8)

Area = 1000/(0.8*5.670373x10^-8*30^4)

=1000/367.4401704

≈2.72m^2

So using the approximation of 1kW/m^2 of solar, you need on the order of 2.7x the area of solar for radiators

That doesn't seem too bad, and is on par with what the ISS has. The radiators on ISS have emissivity about 0.91

Ed. With the same quality of radiator on the ISS it's about 2.4*solar kilowatts

Or PFD