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> but normally you'll have a narrowly defined and very specific technical topic/hypothesis that you're working on, and many/most of these aren't going to be closed off by ChatGPT4

Pretty hard disagree. Even if your NLP PhD topic is looking at hypotheses on underlying processes about how languages work (and LLMs can't give you this insight), 9 times out of 10 it's with an eye for some sort of "applicability" of this for the future. GPT-4 just cut off the applicability parts of this for huge swaths of NLP research.