Joke: After PhD-Level AI Comes the Intelligence of People Who Skipped the PhD

burkov · x · 2026-09-16

A viral AI joke quoting the claim that "models are getting close to PhD-level intelligence; after that, they're expected to achieve the intelligence of someone who decided not to do a PhD" — a jab at inflated "PhD-level" marketing of model capabilities.

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