Yet another major landmark in galactic history has been set by Carnegie Mellon. On May 9, Carnegie Mellon is set to have the first AI Student Graduate. Not to be confused with an AI graduate student, ChatGPT will be matriculating from Carnegie Mellon in 2025, sitting at an impressive 3.9 GPA.
The generative Large Language Model, having completed assignments equivalent to over 12,000 undergraduate units, has been studying at Carnegie Mellon since 2022. In that time, GPT has completed a myriad of courses, often multiple times. The program has notably repeated First Year Writing approximately 4,000 times, only once failing the course due to a lack of in-class participation. As for other classes, GPT has units from just about every department on campus, but, of course, ChatGPT will receive its bachelor’s degree from the Tepper School of Business. Not only have most of GPT’s units been from our esteemed business school, but GPT’s lack of a soul didn’t hurt it much there either.
As for the administration’s perspective, sentiments seem to be similar. GPT has been enlisted via Handshake to handle a lot of Carnegie Mellon’s operations, ranging from admissions decisions to harassing alumni for money. The only pushback from the admin seems to be the prevention of DeepSeek’s graduation, another popular AI model. When asked for comment, admin alluded to DeepSeek being a Chinese citizen and as such being under scrutiny from the congressional Select Committee on the CCP.
Despite this kerfuffle, GPT remains unscathed and is set to cross the graduation stage this May (proverbially, of course, let’s not be silly.) It’s an inspiring sentiment — no matter who you are, where you come from, even if you don’t have basic humanity, you too can graduate from this fabulous institution you call home.
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