Stanford talk asks what PhDs are for when AI is reshaping research itself
giffmana · x · 2026-10-25
Roboticist danfeixu amplifies a blog post by PhD student @ToruOO, adapted from a Stanford Vision Seminar talk, calling it "a golden era for goal-oriented researchers with low ego." The post tackles three questions: what to work on as the field shifts, how to work with AI, and what a PhD is even for. The author's take: despite FOMO, "life is very long, and we have time."
Related event: Stanford researchers reflect on doing a PhD in the AI era(2 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Joscha Bach lecture: What would it mean for a machine to be conscious? — burny_tech · 2026-10-25
- AI animation flood incoming: Three.js slop now, Claude's telltale editing sounds — ChrisGPT · 2026-10-25
- "AI Users Are Lazy"? One Dev Says It's the Opposite — They've Never Worked This Hard — Yamapama · 2026-10-25
- iamtrask: US Layoffs Down Year-over-Year for Two Years Despite AI — iamtrask · 2026-10-25
- Damodaran: AI's $10-15T market story is 'terrifying' — it only works if AI replaces people — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-10-25
- Economists debate whether AI-era economics will produce 10x new economists or just more empiricism — soumitrashukla9 · 2026-10-25