Comment by exasperaited

The extraordinary, beautiful, perfect thing about this is the way it poetically underscores several things about the LLM world:

1) these people think so little of everyone else's areas of expertise they are willing to claim their technology has PhD-level expertise in them, apparently unironically.

2) actually in LLM world, PhDs are what you have if you're too stupid not to take the FAANG money in your second year when the quick wins are done, you've done a couple of posters and now you realise you're papering over the cracks with them: worthless. So why would anyone else want a PhD when PhDs are so worthless based on their bubble experience? We can just replace them with GPT-5.

3) their PhD-level-intelligent system is incapable of absorbing corrections, which is a crucial part of acquiring an actual PhD

4) GPT-5 continues to have the asshole-confidence of a tech bro mainsplaining someone else's area of expertise on his personal blog.

We're now at the point where marketing is celebrating software that has had so much effort spent on crushing hallucination that in fact it has become delusionally confident.

I love everything about this.

ETA: at the end of this article is this paragraph, which really is a thing of beauty:

I don’t think you get to have it both ways. That is, you don’t get to, as it were, borrow charisma from all the hype and then disavow every failure to live up to it as someone else’s naive mistake for believing the hype.

Bravo.