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    Ask HN: Will AI assistants become photorealistic video?

    I notice ChatGPT goes straight to voice now. How far away do you guys think we are from generally available video assistant?

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    Comment #48790386

    Standards vary.

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    Comment #48790353

    When can I snort this?

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    Comment #48790193

    IMHO, this is an actual good use of what sounds like a person guiding a model to do a mass conversion. This is quite the understatement. Actually, it's probably the understatement …

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    So, another victory for the LLM. We were told by project maintainers that AI generated pull requests for vulnerabilities would be blocked. Looks like humans take another L. We have…

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    Comment #48779762

    They do if they are a reasoning-variant. That doesn’t necessarily mean it actually needed to reason for many questions, your prompt + regular context could be enough to get a good …

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    Comment #48778515

    A) Context and prompting cuts the search space for next token generation. That’s pretty useful, as you mentioned. B) The other use of context is that it introduces entirely new inf…

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    Comment #48777802

    It’ll be the programmers version of those civil war reenactments.

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    Comment #48777745

    It’s the only way you’ll ever be able to pretend to be a programmer again though.

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    Look man, I’ve got a MMO that I’m working on that’s set in 2014 where everyone is a programmer in SV (might call it World of Legacy ). It’s a period piece. I NEED as much blog trai…

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    Comment #48777386

    Right, the one person (Neo?), has to be able to verify the output. Most of us can’t replace the accountant because we can’t really … replace the accountant. We can replace the acco…

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    Comment #48777341

    Isn’t this just a form of the bitter lesson? Our attempts to make engineered context and agents will simply be made obsolete with bigger and better models. Those transcripts are pr…

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    When I think about the typical team composition needed to build a typical app in a lot of companies, well, actually what do I think about? I think, okay, that’s how many people we …

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    Comment #48358826

    If you have access to a Xeon processor, I don’t see why humans should be the first thing you interface with.

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    [flagged]

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    Comment #48357558

    What do u recommend?