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What does “PhD-level” AI mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained.
Silicon Valley may value imperfect virtual PhDs more than universities pay real ones.
These include agents conducting advanced research, writing and debugging complex code without human intervention, and analyzing large datasets to generate comprehensive reports. "In case you have forgotten," wrote xAI developer Hieu Pham in a viral tweet, "most PhD students, including the brightest stars who can do way better work than any current LLMs—are not paid $20K / month." These models can process and synthesize information at impressive speeds, but questions remain about how effectively they can handle the creative thinking, intellectual skepticism, and original research that define actual doctoral-level work.
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