[an0malous]

“GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert.”

Sam Altman, August 2025

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5prvgw0r1o

[falcor84]

What of it?

For me too, it was around that time last year, with GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and then Gemini 3 that I started feeling that these models are clearly becoming great at reasoning. I'm not at all opposed to saying that they are around PhD-level on at least some domains.

[kmaitreys]

I think there's a lot of difference between sounding like someone and being someone. The models are excellent at pretending indeed.

[falcor84]

I don't think that sama was arguing that ChatGPT actually passed a PhD thesis defense. But arguably, it could make for an interesting benchmark.

[kmaitreys]

Please do not get swayed by nor defend the words vomited by a snake oil salesman.

Also what benchmark? How will you you design it?

[0123456789ABCDE]

exactly. this is what whole RL thing is optimizing for, even if that is not the intent.