We used to call that Piled Higher and Deeper. I’ve met a LOT of PhDs who didn’t have enough sense to come in out of the rain.
It’s what it represents. If the AI can gather and organize information at the level that a typical PhD can, how far is it from exercising independent though with the intent of improving itself further.
A PhD is a scientist who conducted at least one research project by himself/herself, nothing more and nothing else. Usually they get an advice from a professor, but do literature search, experimental work and write a report (dissertation) by themselves. They also defend conclusions of their research projects in front of their peers. This title (PhD) says nothing about intellectual capacity, work ethic and integrity of it’s holder. There is no need for snide remarks about
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Hopefully, I'm not one of those. It never ceased to amaze me during my career among these people how cognitively brilliant some of them could be in their discipline while so lacking common sense.