The strategy aims to outperform traditional graduate-led research workflows
an incoming professor told me she's spending her entire discretionary fund ($1.5 million) on chatgpt tokens and undergrads to feed open problems into chatgpt - she thinks this will work better than taking on grad students
Many users condemned the incoming professor's $1.5M allocation to ChatGPT tokens to replace grad students with undergrads as dystopian misuse of funds and called for her firing, while a few called the idea legit.
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ok but what will she do after the first two weeks?
an incoming professor told me she's spending her entire discretionary fund ($1.5 million) on chatgpt tokens and undergrads to feed open problems into chatgpt - she thinks this will work better than taking on grad students
@typedfemale which school? (no need to name names, but i am curious what kind of grad students she has access to) and which field?
an incoming professor told me she's spending her entire discretionary fund ($1.5 million) on chatgpt tokens and undergrads to feed open problems into chatgpt - she thinks this will work better than taking on grad students
@typedfemale No incoming professor has a $1.5 milion discretionary fund, this tweet is such horseshit.
@typedfemale a $1.5M discretionary fund going entirely to ChatGPT tokens signals that academic research has a throughput problem that hiring more PhD students cannot fix
@typedfemale shouldn't discretionary serve overall purpose of educational institution or one can buy barbie dolls with it?
@typedfemale going to be a tough few years for the grad students
on the bright side, the overhead is way lower
@typedfemale What field is she in?
Seems like this person doesn’t understand the job description of a professor in a research university (if that’s where they are), but also the idea that that scientific research is bottlenecked by having someone “feed open problems” to a chatbot is really funny to me
an incoming professor told me she's spending her entire discretionary fund ($1.5 million) on chatgpt tokens and undergrads to feed open problems into chatgpt - she thinks this will work better than taking on grad students
@47fucb4r8c69323 @typedfemale Quite common. Start-up funds in say physics at a major US university start at like 750k. Experimentalists get $2-$3 million. But they are supppsed to build a lab. And for the rest hire people. Buying GPT time sounds like a misuse of funds.
@typedfemale grad students would push back on the framing of problems, explore the wrong directions that teach you why they're wrong, and generate the context that makes the results interpretable
none of that comes from chatgpt
@karch_andreas @47fucb4r8c69323 @typedfemale This isn’t “quite common.” It is *possible* if the person’s needs demand it. They don’t just give you $1.5M basically anywhere. And no place will do that without a well-documented justification for how you will spend the money. Also, startups are under *much* more scrutiny now.
@typedfemale @zephyr_z9 Max(class size, intellect). Not either/or.
@typedfemale dystopian
@La_do_riff @typedfemale you say this as if buying barbie dolls doesn't serve the overall purpose of educational institutions?
@socrates1024 @TaliaRinger @typedfemale Start up funds in engineering for example can be very large. See:
Faculty Launch Fund | Stanford University School of Engineering https://share.google/J75yXH7RB4pfnrKvJ
@typedfemale She's gonna hit the enlightenment soon after the funds end
@mathandcobb @TaliaRinger @typedfemale who gets a $1.5m discretionary fund as startup package? never happened
@typedfemale @zephyr_z9 She’s just bad at hiring then.
@typedfemale Maybe they misunderstand what being a professor means.
@mathandcobb @TaliaRinger @typedfemale I've been a fool