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

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Post by jhghikvhu »

guerrilla wrote: post #27
ithkuil wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's a Bible reference. Jesus supposedly said that "A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his own family". When you grew up with someone everything will be colored by your past experience with them. You remember all the grandiose stupid things they said in the past. If they are saying actually wise things now you will not believe them as much as you should. On the other hand if they are still saying stupid things other people have not yet learned caution.

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

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Post by Tiberium »

MathGPT also has this (exactly in the same 3blue1brown style, so I guess they also use manim), and in my experience it does actually work better and tries to explain math and write the equations.

I think they use some extremely cheap model for writing the code, probably 4o-mini or similar.

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

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Post by wryoak »

mistaken wrote: post #30
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

It didn’t explain soul capsules at all though, it barely mentioned them

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

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Post by QuantumGood »

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"

More modern version: "A person from out of town with a briefcase".

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

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Post by throwaway314155 »

jhghikvhu wrote: post #31
guerrilla wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What.

It's a Bible reference. Jesus supposedly said that "A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his own family". When you grew up with someone everything will be colored by your past experience with them. You remember all the grandiose stupid things they said in the past. If they are saying actually wise things now you will not believe them as much as you should. On the other hand if they are…

I'm failing to see how this Bible story is related to the aforementioned truism, which seems to actually _contradict_ the story.

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

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Post by zan2434 »

StefanBatory wrote: post #20

Can I ask from curiosity how long it took you to program and design this entire project?

Hmm the initial version of the app only took me about a day to get something working, but that version took minutes to generate a single video and even then only worked a third of the time. It took a solid 2 weeks from there to add all the edge cases to the prompt to increase reliability, add GPU rendering and streaming to improve performance/latency, and shore up the infra for scaling.

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

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Post by zan2434 »

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

The voice is just OpenAI’s default tts voice. I agree that Veritasium video is an incredible work and the ai version is absurd by comparison! This is mostly a proof of concept that this is possible at all, and as LLMs get smarter it’ll be interesting to see if the quality automatically improves. For now, the tool is really only useful for very specific or personal questions that wouldn’t already exist on YouTube.

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

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Post by cchance »

The Manim is not great, words overlapping etc, the page itself needs a lot of work, generating and then nothing happens, and it seems in a lot of case your backend workflows have issues, with descriptions only starting and ending after a say 30s when it needs to go another 1-2 minutes at least
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