Six months before the conversation, a language model solved the speaker's thesis problem at a genuine PhD level.

“over the last couple of years like giving this prompt in my thesis um a couple years ago well it was just chat so it couldn't do anything then a year ago it started answering things i would say at an undergraduate level um like that would have been my answer if this was like given to me as like a homework in undergraduate six months ago um it solved it right”

“at like a real phd level and uh”