Speaker 1: I've been sharing with you a load of AI tools, but what does AI think of you? I've been using Mid Journey to create images of typical PhD students. This is the prompt I'm using. This is what it thinks of you. All right, here is a maths student. So as you can see, none of them are smiling, which is probably the first realistic thing that this AI has done. This guy looks like a first year student, and in a strange way, this is like a progression. First year, second year, third year, fourth year. This guy is so surrounded in papers that he's got no way to get in and out of his desk. This guy also is now considering doing a postdoc, which is why he looks so miserable. First year student, however, he's just realized what he's got himself in for. He's just had his first meeting with his PhD supervisor, and you can see the scribblings of a potential madman or genius, whatever you want to call it, behind him. I feel like this guy's just got his first peer review paper back, and he's kind of figuring out the most passive aggressive way to say, no, I'm not going to do those stupid things, you idiots. Chemistry. What does a typical chemistry student look like? Well, apparently it looks like this. This is an OH&S nightmare. Look at all this. All this is spilled out. This is rubbish. It's all spilled out, and he knows he's done wrong. Look, he's about to get a visit from the OH&S inspector. He's so annoyed. He's hit these lights because he's so frustrated. Look at what a mess, mate. That is absolutely diabolical, although I have been into labs that are actually dirtier than this, and they just hope that the OH&S guy doesn't come in. Look at this fresh-faced first year student. Although, where's your lab coat, mate? You're not going to get very far without your lab coat. This guy's a little bit better. Look, he's put all of his glassware on the wall. Now this is where we start to get serious. Look at these guys. Look. Look how serious they are doing chemistry things. Random noose for just those times when you're not sure whether or not you should end it all just after those supervisor meetings. He's got a little glass of his own urine. So that's because his supervisor hasn't let him out of the lab for months. History students, here they are. Now I didn't do history, but tell me whether or not, history students, you wear cosplay to the labs. This guy can't even read a book the right way. He's got it written the wrong way. He's got a little weird typewriter thing, but he is looking wistfully into the distance, probably thinking about a career change. Lovely books though. This is something. This guy's got aspirations for becoming a PhD supervisor because he's organised all his books. This guy's trying to make a good impression so that when people come to his office, they're like, oh, oh, he's very organised. Clearly he's managerial material. History students, you're winning at the moment in terms of style. Biology students, at last, we've got some actual representation from women. But unfortunately, they're just as miserable. None of these people are... Oh, he's smiling a little bit. He's got that neutral smile, like when someone comes into the lab and is like, smile. And you have to be like, oh, I have to pretend I like this because I know this is going to go on in like Prospectus somewhere. But look at all of the mess in these biology labs. Look at all of the living organisms that they've pilfered from the world. No glasses. Oh my God, biology. You're winning. You're the coolest. You're not the nerdiest because there's someone without glasses. This guy is second year slump, 100%. They're second year PhD student. They're looking at round of all of the stuff they've collected and they're like, really? Do I have to do this again for another two years? He's realised his supervisor is on sabbatical constantly to some sort of fancy like beach somewhere because he's a biology professor. Look at all this. This is going to create another virus that is going to attack the world, I can assure you. This is just nice though. Look at that. You've been deep sea diving for all of those, haven't you? Put them back where you found it though. Engineering. Engineering. Look at these people. These people look like every physics engineering student. I've ever met and their offices are just as messy as this. Look at this guy. Wires upon wires. Yeah, but I have seen offices that are this bad. So many receding hairlines. Maybe not receding. Maybe that's just me projecting. And I reckon down here is some sort of positive affirmation that someone said would help but he's clearly not helping because look at his face. This is actually the view. Imagine you're the PhD supervisor and you're looking out across your desk at your PhD student. That's what this view is. Now imagine just speaking to this person, saying whatever pops into your mind first but pretending like it's some sort of divine sort of like inspiration for their PhD and that's what they look like. That's exactly what they look like, like neutral expression because they don't want to give anything away. They don't want to be like, supervisor, you're an idiot. But okay, I've got to listen to everything you say because that's the dynamic. So engineering, you are winning at the dirtiest and least organized workspaces. Well done. Social science. Social science, love red jackets. What is it with the red jacket social scientists? Look at this. Look, this is so much cleaner. Well done, first of all. But what's going on down here? This guy's got silly string just to like jazz up the office a little bit, like, because I've seen PhD students' offices and sometimes there is random stuff and you just don't ask. Like as a supervisor, as someone that's kind of like, you know, a little bit more senior, you go in, you hold your nose if you have to and you just don't mention anything. So that's what I would do in this office. I'd be like, oh, there's stuff on the floor, don't mention it because it could be something weird or something cool that you don't know about. Now, this is something that I've been wanting to do for a while and that is a PhD supervisor. Look at these PhD supervisors or at least the interpretation of a PhD supervisor. Let me tell you what AI has got absolutely right. This lab coat is crisp, it is crisp, it is because this lab coat has just been taken out of the packet and this PhD supervisor is in the lab for the first time in years because there's a photo opportunity and he needs to get his face out there and he doesn't know what this does. It probably doesn't do anything, it's probably just like the garbage disposal thing or what they're going to get rid of but he set it up in some sort of like magical way to be like, yeah, you know, this is what I do every day. This guy is so important that he does not need a chair, he's pushed his chair to the side. Now, that is very PhD supervisor-esque. Let me tell you, I've been in some supervisor meetings where they just stand up and lord it over you. One guy I used to work with used to practice his golf swings as he was telling you all of the important information that spilled off the top of his head and in the background is the thing that he just got a load of money for but he doesn't really need but he knew that he needed to bring in money for the university to look important but that's going to sit there and collect dust and no one's really going to use this piece of equipment. So yeah, well done but all of these PhD supervisors look relatively young. Maybe this guy's the oldest out of the lot of them. So there we have it. That's what AI thinks of each different PhD student in different PhD fields and a bonus PhD student supervisor, AI image generation. Let me know in the comments what you think. Does any of that ring true for you? I'd love to hear about it. Also, why not just go and try it for yourself, for your field? I'll do more of these in the future if that's interesting to you but also remember that there are more ways that you can engage with me. The first way is to sign up to my newsletter. Head over to andrewstapeton.com.au forward slash newsletter. The link is in the description and when you sign up, you'll get five emails over about two weeks. Everything from the tools I've used, the podcast I've been on, how to write the perfect abstract and more. It's exclusive content only available for free so go sign up now but also go and check out academiainsider.com. 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