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

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Post by progbits »

philipwhiuk wrote: post #21

Whose voice are you 'borrowing' for this? Compared to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24GfgNtnjXc this video is absurdly limited https://tma.live/video/9c8e725e-ec21-41a7-984a-317d84216497

Mildly off topic, for what I think is the best material on rainbows check out this lecture (and the entire 801+802 courses by Walter Lewin)

https://youtu.be/pj0wXRLXai8

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

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Post by execat »

progbits wrote: post #22
philipwhiuk wrote: post #21

Whose voice are you 'borrowing' for this? Compared to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24GfgNtnjXc this video is absurdly limited https://tma.live/video/9c8e725e-ec21-41a7-984a-317d84216497

Mildly off topic, for what I think is the best material on rainbows check out this lecture (and the entire 801+802 courses by Walter Lewin) https://youtu.be/pj0wXRLXai8

In his last lecture he mentions that the best part of teaching is when a student sends them a photo of a rainbow 10 years after graduating, saying that they remember the whole physics behind it.

Same for me. I think of the cones of light being formed when I see the rainbow and that amazing lecture.

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

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Post by IshKebab »

csomar wrote: post #24

Pure Garbage: https://tma.live/video/5fe506ca-3831-4ba3-b9c6-ff899c571bf1 Although it is pretty impressive for what an LLM can generate these days.

Well, it wasn't wrong at least, it just... stopped about 1% into the explanation.

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

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Post by guerrilla »

ithkuil wrote: post #19
mrayycombi wrote: post #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 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"

What.

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

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Post by deng »

As usual with these things: it is impressive that stuff like this can be generated so quickly at all, but the content is very superficial and often wrong or at least misleading. It's unusable for learning, but great for spamming platforms, just like NotebookLM for instance.

As an example, I asked about the Cantor function. It generated a 1:24 video, which is laughably short, explained correctly how the Cantor set is defined but showed a flawed visual representation, then simply skipped over how the Cantor function is constructed and simply states the basic properties. Sorry, but this is garbage content.

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

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Post by mistaken »

deng wrote: post #29

As usual with these things: it is impressive that stuff like this can be generated so quickly at all, but the content is very superficial and often wrong or at least misleading. It's unusable for learning, but great for spamming platforms, just like NotebookLM for instance. As an example, I asked about the Cantor function. It generated a 1:24 video, which is laughably short, explained correctly how the Cantor set is…

It will happily explain non existing concepts as well: https://tma.live/video/26c9fec7-3bb7-42e5-837f-617fd5659f70
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