PhD AI agents for more than most PhD humans cost. Look forward to the sales figure on this, cc @edzitron.com - ThreadSky

garymarcus.bsky.social • 3 days ago

PhD AI agents for more than most PhD humans cost.

Look forward to the sales figure on this, cc @edzitron.com

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And humans with PhDs don't necessarily destroy our climate.

Unless, of course, they work for AI companies.

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edzitron.com•3 days ago

Looking forward to the compute cost personally

scabstation5.bsky.social•3 days ago

I went to type a response, but i cant beat the smilling man.

stephenreidwrites.bsky.social•3 days ago

While it might end up being an hour of "I agree with you" and "I also agree with you", I'd still like to hear @garymarcus.bsky.social on Better Offline, Ed. I mean, it was pretty much like that with Adam Conover and I still listened!

noologist.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well, good to know I won't be short of work then lmao

proflhunter.bsky.social•3 days ago

I have a couple of about-to-graduate PhD students struggling to find good jobs. I am sure they would take $20k/month in case anyone wants superior performance for the price...

dabiophysicist.bsky.social•3 days ago

Where "PhD-level" means "does OK on standardized tests"

dabiophysicist.bsky.social•3 days ago

On many tests, it's not hard to pick correct answers without even reading the questions - and LLMs are actually pretty good at that, probably for all the wrong reasons

lipstickscribbles.bsky.social•3 days ago

Software ones are overpriced like a used car.

tparsli.bsky.social•3 days ago

Remember that the agents will be 100-1000x more productive!

(Some undisclosed time in the future. Maybe. )

garymarcus.bsky.social•3 days ago

Someday they may be worth big bucks, sure.

Not this year or next that’s for damn sure.

tparsli.bsky.social•3 days ago

We are still waiting for Tesla FSD and manned flights to Mars, so I’m not holding my breath.

internist.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yuck seems wildly overpriced and overhyped

barbaracuerden.bsky.social•3 days ago

how about PhD n math?

compthink.bsky.social•3 days ago

Seriously, anyone considering buying for such a service should look at our fantastic undergraduate co-op students instead. They are highly knowledgeable, motivated, and unlike an LLM agent, will actually understand what you are asking them to do. https://waterlooworks.uwaterloo.ca/home.htm

sylirisk.bsky.social•3 days ago

Things are moving fast, and I'm curious to see where this leads to...

polecopub.bsky.social•3 days ago

So cool to have a non deterministic PhD paid like a top manager, that gets randomly wrong and doesn't even know when, how and why. Probably the most expensive intern ever.

teganmaharaj.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah but this solves the pesky problem of the money getting distributed to other humans!

...i'm not saying they're explicitly trying to concentrate wealth and power in their own hands. I am saying they wouldn't be doing anything different if they were.

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