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roboboffin

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    If human need drives the creative process, then there will always be a human in the loop. Instead, each human becomes the “random seed” that initialises the process based on their …

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    Comment #44800802

    Depends what you mean by creativity. In some ways, AI is not creative at all, everything is generated by mapping text to visuals using diffusion modelling via a shared latent space…

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    In theory, creativity is an infinite space. As technology advances it allows humans to explore more and more complex things; take the advancement of music as an example, synths, lo…

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    I just had a thought. It used to be that complex C++ systems used to take so long to compile that developers used to go and have a coffee etc. This was before distributed compiling…

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    I’m not saying people will be laid off, although this is what the article is about. So, I think people will still be prompting, but if you can prompt an agent and it can happily co…

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    The difference for me, is that things are changing too fast to keep up. For example, if a large part of your job is taken away seemingly overnight, by a new model, your whole job c…

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    I think workplaces will have to allow people time to adapt. So that if your particular skill set is replaced by AI, you have the ability to retrain to a part that isn’t. Ultimately…

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    No worries, I wasn’t saying to you directly. I agree 15 disks is very difficult for a human, probably on a sheer stamina level; but I managed to do 8 in about 15 minutes by playing…

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    Not sure why I am being downvoted. I am simply saying that we know there is a defined algorithm for solving Tower of Hanoi, and the source code for it is widely available. So, o3 p…

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    I think that their point was that the problem is easily solvable by humans without code, and shows the ability to chain steps together to achieve a goal.

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    Here is a link to the press release about the drug discovery: https://www.futurehouse.org/research-announcements/demonstra...

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    I think phrases like “going rogue” apportion too much agency to the AI. It is more likely that it just spirals out of control, and causes damage that way. I can’t imagine that the …

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