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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 71 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Ph.Deez nutz.

I have friends who actually have a Ph.D. It takes many years to get one and an attempt to actually better a field. People tend to trust your opinion on a subject when you have a doctorate in that field.

I can't even trust ChatGPT to answer a basic question without fucking up and apologizing to me, only to fuck up again.

Maybe stop treating language models like AGI? They're awesome at recognizing semantic similarities between words and phrases (embeddings) as well as generating arbitrary but reasonable looking output that matches an expected output (structured outputs). That's cool enough. Stop pretending like it isn't and falsely advertising it as being able to cure cancer and world hunger, especially when you wouldn't even be happy if it did.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI as it sits is a tool that has specific use cases. It is absolutely not intelligence, as it's commonly marketed. It may seem intelligent to the uninformed, but boy howdy is that a mistake.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's a sad reflection of our current state when being able to string together coherent sentences is impressive enough to many as to be confused with truth and/or intelligence.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It wasn't that long ago that it was unfathomable for anything other than humans to be able to do this.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Polly want a cracker" has been around since before anyone alive today was born, and that's the same thing as what LLMs are doing in essence (mimicking human speech), but no one was taking advice from parrots.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If I asked a PhD, "How many Bs are there in the word 'blueberry'?" They'd call an ambulance for my obvious, severe concussion. They wouldn't answer, "There are three Bs in the word blueberry! I know, it's super tricky!"

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don’t feel this is a good example of why LLMs shouldn’t be treated like PhDs.

My first interactions with gpt5 have been pretty awful, and I’d test it but it’s not available to me anymore

Edit: I am not having a stroke, I’m bad at typing and autocorrect hates me

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

BlackBerry toast

[–] darreninthenet@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

FWIW, ChatGPT 5 gets this correct

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] darreninthenet@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

It did for me 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] limerod@reddthat.com -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You appear to be using the older gpt model. The newer model calculates and answers correctly for most words at least for the few I asked

[–] mbtrhcs@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It literally says 5 in the screenshot but ok

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

I saw that. I'm using the mobile app. There's a possibility the web version is using an inferior model.

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ChatGPT in its PhD thesis defense: "Oh, I'm sorry for the misinformation, let me try this again..."

[–] Correct316@monero.town 1 points 1 month ago

LOL!! 🤣 Yes! This exactly!

[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just Conmen selling their snake oil

[–] Correct316@monero.town 1 points 1 month ago

Have to agree with this. My experience with the various AI models is that they're fairly terrible. I really don't want to see this garbage driving cars where lives are at stake.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 month ago

I could power a data center with the rolling of my eyes after reading this headline.

[–] mormund@feddit.org 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't he claim that with 4ó as well? But yes please inflate the bubble further, blow everything up.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

just one more iteration, i swear it's PHD level this time

JUST ONE MORE ITERATION PLEASE

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I had the Blueberry talk with GPT5:

🎓 PhB level checks out.
🚫 Blockchain level uselessness and waste as well.

🎈📌💥

Yep — blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention."

... I hate this technology so fucking much...

Also, it trying to gaslight you into believing bluebberry is real was very funny.

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

Well, it answers correctly in my case.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"It can now drive its users straight into an active psychosis 35% faster by sounding more persuasive than ever before!"

OpenAI claims a lot of things.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago

I mean, that doesn't really mean much, given that you don't have to be very intelligent to get one. It's mostly an endurance exercise and often a test how much frustration and uncertainty you can take in your life.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago

How many ChatGPhDs will it take to do the math on how long it is until this bubble pops?

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 13 points 1 month ago

This guy always shows up with his hands like this in news photos

I know it's irrelevant but I had to point it out

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 9 points 1 month ago

Oops i ate the onion.

Right? No way thats considered a legitimate argument since a PhD just says you dedicated yourself to a very specific topic and arent necessarily smarter or better spoken for it.
Or is he just bragging he found a way to filter it to just people's PhD thesis papers that they stole?

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe a PhD in civil engineering lol.

[–] Correct316@monero.town 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shouldn't be hard to improve over this rubbish:

is it now 15 years after 2010 ?

GPT-4 No, it is not 15 years after 2010. As of today, August 8, 2025, it is 15 years after 2010.>

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

The gpt-5 model answers this correctly.