About whether frontier models are PhD-level in every subject, in a debate on AI job loss.
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About whether frontier models are PhD-level in every subject, in a debate on AI job loss.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I'll believe that claim when a SOTA model can autonomously create content that matches the quality and length of any average PhD dissertation. As of right now, we're nowhere near that and don't know how we could possibly get there.
SOTA models are superhuman in a narrow sense, in that they have solid background knowledge of pretty much any subject they've been trained on. That's great. But no, it doesn't turn your AI datacenter into "a country of geniuses".