I’m incredibly confident that any professor of aerospace engineering would give a better response. Is it common for people with PhDs to fall for basic misconceptions in their field?
This seems like a reasonable standard to hold GPT-5 to given the way it’s being marketed. Nobody would care if OpenAI compared it to an enthusiastic high school student with a few hours to poke around Google and come up with an answer.
> I’m incredibly confident that any professor of aerospace engineering would give a better response.
Do you think there could be a depth vs. breadth difference? Perhaps that PhD aerospace engineer would know more in this one particular area but less across an array of areas of aerospace engineering.
I cannot give an answer for your question. I was mainly trying to point out that we humans are highly fallible too. I would imagine no one with a PhD in any modern field knows everything about their field nor are they immune to mistakes.
Was this misconception truly basic? I admittedly somewhat skimmed those parts of the debate because I am not knowledgeable enough to know who is right/wrong. It was clear that, if indeed it was a basic concept, there is quite some contention still.
> This seems like a reasonable standard to hold GPT-5 to given the way it’s being marketed.
This seems like a reasonable standard to hold GPT-5 to given the way it’s being marketed. Nobody would care if OpenAI compared it to an enthusiastic high school student with a few hours to poke around Google and come up with an answer.