Flutterby™! : Sam Altman throws shade on PhDs.

In case you're wondering where some of the current scorn is coming from, it's that Sam Altman said "GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert".

BBC: OpenAI claims GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to 'PhD level'

Newsweek: Why ChatGPT-5 Denies Launch of ChatGPT-5

NBC: OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’

And it seems like more of the same bullshit. Maybe? Maybe it's worse... Anyway, as ‪Tara Calishain‬ ‪@researchbuzz.bsky.social‬ observed:

If PhD-level intelligence thinks there are three bs in blueberry, maybe I'm glad I'm a high-school dropout