PhD Focus Should Shift to Physical World and Robotics as LLMs Swallow Symbolic CS
JFPuget · x · 2026-08-02
An expert suggests that those starting a PhD now should seek fields with a large physical world component—such as wet labs, physics experiments, IT hardware, or robotics—rather than purely symbolic domains like mathematics or traditional computer science.
The rationale is that purely symbolic fields are being rapidly swallowed and automated by Large Language Models (LLMs).
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