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Re: Show HN: AI that generates 3blue1brown-style explainer videos

#11

Great but wrong answers. I asked how big tree-3 was after some helpful explaining about exponentials, it tells me its 27. This is... an underestimate.

I'm not really a bear on llms, but using it for explanations in this way needs a lot of caution. It's very easy to give an argument that "seems" right at first glance, e.g. https://xkcd.com/803/

Re: Show HN: AI that generates 3blue1brown-style explainer videos

#12

Great but wrong answers. I asked how big tree-3 was after some helpful explaining about exponentials, it tells me its 27. This is... an underestimate.

I'm not really a bear on llms, but using it for explanations in this way needs a lot of caution. It's very easy to give an argument that "seems" right at first glance, e.g. https://xkcd.com/803/

totally fair! I like the XKCD comic as well because it hints at a potential solution - even if you can't always be correct, how you respond to critical questions can really help. I'm working on a feature for users to ask follow up questions and definitely going to consider how to make it most honest and curious

Re: Show HN: AI that generates 3blue1brown-style explainer videos

#13
Those videos are apex quality videos. You might as well ask for Nobel prize literature quality essays from ChatGPT.

You can probably imitate the structure/scaffolding of a 3b1b video in a cargo cult way, but you are losing domain expert level verification of quality (which is why AI fails, because it's not a domain expert).

So heres how I'm hearing yoir question, and it answers itself: "how do I get domain expert quality from a non-domain expert AI?"....

Re: Show HN: AI that generates 3blue1brown-style explainer videos

#14
post #9

I tried a few times and this is my experience 1. Doesn't work at all on Firefox 133.0.3 (64-bit) 2. Works on Chrome 131.0.6778.205 (Official Build) (64-bit) 3. No existing links do anything but a sub second "Generating" which disappears quickly 4. Does not work in Incognito on Chrome 131.0.6778.205 (Official Build) (64-bit) My prompt kind of worked but ended at 48 seconds Prompt: "Describe a honeybee learning which f…

These are amazing examples! Thanks for all the feedback, detailed info, and persistence in trying! HN hug of death means I'm running into Gemini rate limits unfortunately :( will def make that more clear when it happens in the UI and try to find some workarounds. The other issues are bugs with my streaming logic retrying clips which failed to generate. LLMs aren't yet perfect at writing Manim, so to keep things smoot…

You didn't think to add a queue (with trackable status links)?

Re: Show HN: AI that generates 3blue1brown-style explainer videos

#15
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are amazing examples! Thanks for all the feedback, detailed info, and persistence in trying! HN hug of death means I'm running into Gemini rate limits unfortunately :( will def make that more clear when it happens in the UI and try to find some workarounds. The other issues are bugs with my streaming logic retrying clips which failed to generate. LLMs aren't yet perfect at writing Manim, so to keep things smoot…

You didn't think to add a queue (with trackable status links)?

There is a job queue on the backend with statuses, just not worth breaking the streaming experience to ask the LLM rewrite broken manim segments out of order

Re: Show HN: AI that generates 3blue1brown-style explainer videos

#19

Those videos are apex quality videos. You might as well ask for Nobel prize literature quality essays from ChatGPT. You can probably imitate the structure/scaffolding of a 3b1b video in a cargo cult way, but you are losing domain expert level verification of quality (which is why AI fails, because it's not a domain expert). So heres how I'm hearing yoir question, and it answers itself: "how do I get domain expert qua…

I once heard an interesting definition of what an expert is:

"An expert is a person who is far away from home and gives advice"

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