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Which is funny because four years is already a very short amount of time to expect someone to complete a full PhD if they're actually doing the work.

perfectly in line with a country and culture already being devoured by its obsession with artifice, though!

I have heard "I only use AI for the first draft" as if that's cool, and not the draft where you do all the idea forming and synthesis. I guess the point of research is to generate papers right? Point of writing is to generate words?

Vance displays the intellect of a chicklet, along with Trump, Hegseth, ....

We fetishize the things that will make the path quicker and easier. But toward WHAT is the fucking path in the first place?

But just think of the tuition revenue and Office of Advancement possibilities!

To have any worthwhile career prospects as a PhD, you have to be an expert in your field with original ideas.That has to be obvious in interviews, seminars, and even hallway conversations. If your only skill is coaxing AI into doing expert-like things, good luck!

That's not what it is for the wealthy, though, it's a piece of paper they buy to show that they're better than the proles

"At long last, we have created the Matrix from the movie The Matrix"

Doesn't seem implausible that a candidate using AI might only 6 months of growth out of the 4 years they spent prompting their thesis (charitably I'm assuming they would try to learn enough to be able to intelligently prompt the bot)

These new forklifts are going to turn 1 hour workouts into a 5 minute breeze. They can bench press those weights so fast.

"Thanks to this automated electrophoresis robot, I can get a PhD level of chemistry work done in half the time."

I’m sure it would be very valuable reading, but the institutions simply don’t value research as something to be read & used in the discipline. It’s become a purposeless spinning of wheels & it leaves the creative people who make the research out in the cold

....and experiments....with cells...requires years

If someone is going to go the '6 month AI assisted' route, why not just buy a fake PhD diploma? It's quicker, probably cheaper, and you'll have just as much knowledge either way.

Who is saying this?