Comment on Academia to Industry

kemsat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• cabron_offsets@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Eh. Maybe. but don’t discount those phds who were pushed through the process because their advisors were just exhausted by them. i have known too many 10th year students.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Pushed through? In my experience those candidates are encouraged to drop out.

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    • cabron_offsets@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      There are practical matters, some quite controversial, that you aren’t considering. Demographics count for a lot.

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Probably. What are you referring to exactly?

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Not everywhere, I guess. The advisor needs to show good numbers to the stakeholders board, after all

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I think that’s on the entrance selection committee, not the supervisor. (Although they are probably part of that committee)

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    • Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Depends if its profitable or not, including in the long run.

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Yes. Short term easy passes come at the expense of sacrificing long term reputation.

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• VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  A scientist says Britney is really pretty, the press reports scientist thinks Britney is hot, lemmy gets mad because her core temperature is the same as most humans.

  What they’re really claiming is it’ll have PhD level proficiency at certain tasks, that is if you asked an average PhD student to code a pathfinder algorithm GPT would produce similar level output. Likewise if you want it to write an explanation of centrifugal force it could output the same quality essay as the average PhD student.

  They’re not saying that it’ll have agency, emotion, or self-awareness. They’re not saying it’ll have the colloquial understanding of intelligence or wisdom, they’re using intelligence in its normal use in animal biology and computer science where it refers to an organism changing its behavior in response to stimulus in a way that benefits the organism - a worm moving away from light because this will increase its survivability is intelligence, a program selecting word order that earns it a higher score is intelligence.

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  • Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Ah right, everyone was wrong the whole time. See everyone! This right here makes all of it make sense! We can all stop making fun of the statement for being ridiculous, because clearly we are just bad readers. Thank you man likely wearing a cape!

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    • Promethiel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Your comment, but without irony or sarcastic pretention. What exactly do you think semantics are?

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      • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Something unnecessary, certainly

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