ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove It
Source: story link, from mcsweeneys.net
This is a darker version of some of the thoughts I had when I first heard about the “PhD comparison.”
Before you click through to the article, I also want to use this short post as a complaint that I don’t think “intelligence” is a thing—and that PhDs certainly wouldn’t be a measure of it if it were.
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I get why folks in ed compare ChatGPT to Wikipedia, but there are important differences. Wikipedia is entirely non-profit, lays bare its knowledge generation process, can be fixed on the fly, and can’t actively generate problematic content. It’s not just about reliability.
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