Also I don’t really have any intuitive sense of what a phd-level agent would be, the cynical part of me thinks it is a marketing term because people mentally associate one with smart.
It would need to be generating leads and closing sales, or doing the day-to-day work of at least 3 people.
This would have to be backed by something 10X better than the current SOTA models.
Most business tasks and problems you certainly don't need a PhD to solve. Even if you could hire human PhDs at min wage I don't see how most businesses can even leverage that.
If all bank tellers had PhDs in quant finance it would change basically nothing.
Who takes the liability for the agent’s mistakes and hallucinations?
Where can one hire PhD ML experts for $240k?
I think you can PhD ML experts in Sweden for substantially below 240k, maybe even as little as 124k.