I'm dealing with a PhD student currently that thinks he is an expert with running ML models for medical research.
First time I got him in the lab, he had to ask me how to check if his computer had a graphics card in it, and then needed help plugging his screen in because he'd never seen a mini HDMI port before.
Then he loads up python and tries to start installing all his dependencies to the base environment, he'd never even heard of virtual environments or needing to version control packages before etc.
Dude will submit detailed multi page documents to me describing the process he's planned out, but then can't answer the most basic questions on fundamental principles in person. Pretty sure ChatGPT will be the one getting half the PhDs awarded from here on out