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Various AI tools were used for the website copy, stock images, picking of fonts, 80s color scheme, intro video and the JavaScript required to embed the video.
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>Coding involve care and inspiration give it a rest mate. Most coding is garbage generic gluing of boilerplate and API calls. Aligning buttons and agonizing over 18px vs 20px padding is a monumental waste of human capital. 99.999% of coding is basically an interface to a DB (fetch some data, display it, maybe do some basic arithmetic and then save the data). A machine will do all that drudgery better and quicker. We'…
You are definitely right that most code is banal and glue, and that is indeed why the models, or this one at least, seems to be best suited to regurgitate it and change the names of your variables. I guess I still don't see your main point though. There are plenty of tested and compliant style frameworks out there that have figured this stuff out, and they will do it better than whatever Stackoverflow example the AI…
I was cynical of everything - smartphone incrementalism, slow pace of biology developments, social media. It didn't look like the hope and promise of the 1950's and 60's jet packs and robots would ever pan out. You'll probably find historical comments I've made on HN criticizing Ray Kurzweil and his like for their "bullshit Singularity" (as I used to call it). I firmly believed we had plateaued as a society.
With everything going on in AI/ML, I feel wrong about my assessment and finally have hope for the future. This is the automation of automation. Second order.
Please imagine what this means in the fullness of time. You might think HTML / CSS generation is a toy - it is. But what's coming will wash away everything you know. And it'll happen fast. People are plugging themselves into this tech and starting to dig away at existing problems and markets. It'll happen more quickly than with tech and the internet because there are more of us now.
> these demos have really quickly become so boring.
I'm about to put CNN/NBC/etc. out of business, and I'm just getting started: https://fakeyou.com/news
I can think of an AI/ML way to destroy almost every incumbent business out there. You should be applying yourself to that right now.
These are just the cards I'm willing to show now.
> It just sounds to me like maybe you are burnt out, or maybe you don't like coding stuff as much as others.
Maybe they don't like churning butter. The point isn't to write code, it's to create and solve problems.
This is the biggest opportunity of our lifetimes staring us in the face. Don't sleep on this.
OK somehow I've become blasé with text and image generation. (I shouldn't be, but hey) What impressed me was the possibility you used AI to produce a responsive HTML structure and somehow assembled all the assets..... but from what I can tell this was still done manually, even if using a template. It's funny how I am no longer amazed by these generated images. They are amazing. Yet I am still skeptical AI can assembl…
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You are definitely right that most code is banal and glue, and that is indeed why the models, or this one at least, seems to be best suited to regurgitate it and change the names of your variables. I guess I still don't see your main point though. There are plenty of tested and compliant style frameworks out there that have figured this stuff out, and they will do it better than whatever Stackoverflow example the AI…
I'm getting tired of intelligent people dumping on one of the most incredible advances our field has ever seen. I was cynical of everything - smartphone incrementalism, slow pace of biology developments, social media. It didn't look like the hope and promise of the 1950's and 60's jet packs and robots would ever pan out. You'll probably find historical comments I've made on HN criticizing Ray Kurzweil and his like fo…
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>However it is still just pattern matching the visual cortex in your brain is also "just a pattern matching" system. guess it's not very impressive by your standard. This[1] isn't my example (it's from another HN user), but if you work as a programmer and you're not absolutely jaw on the floor astonished by this example then I don't know what to say. Explaining[2] the emergent behaviour is literally cutting edge rese…
> the visual cortex in your brain is also "just a pattern matching" system I can think and a pattern matching system can't. > you're not absolutely jaw on the floor Not at all. Autocomplete will autocomplete.
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i'm curious what you think is worthy of humans to do? often in life i find myself reminding myself that everything is just something to do. serious question, what do you then distinguish as enlightened pursuits vs not, for lack of a better word. edit to add: i painted my family's garage in my teens, manually. and i'm thirties now and when i go to my family home i see the painted garage. it never leaves me, the value.
>> i'm curious what you think is worthy of humans to do? Garden, tend land, and do arts.
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I think we should generate less CRUD, competing standards, endless new languages, frameworks, databases, Linux distros, and so on. I don't see why we should automate this. We could get far greater gains in productivity by less duplicated effort.
And thus, onde more standard is born.
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I'm getting tired of intelligent people dumping on one of the most incredible advances our field has ever seen. I was cynical of everything - smartphone incrementalism, slow pace of biology developments, social media. It didn't look like the hope and promise of the 1950's and 60's jet packs and robots would ever pan out. You'll probably find historical comments I've made on HN criticizing Ray Kurzweil and his like fo…
This follows the form, hype, and presentation of so many crypto pitches I've heard.
AI can give anyone the power to make music, art, film, and media without the time, talent, and institutional capital investments.
AI can automate people's jobs and reduce cost structures to accomplishing work and business objectives.
That's the difference, and the evaluation criteria is easily decided by the free market. Did it do a good job? Will it get hired again to repeat similar work? Are more customers adopting it? That's all you need to judge its success or relevancy.
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I'm arguing against the notion that these LLMs exhibit "emergent behaviour" as you stated. I don't believe they do, as the term is commonly understood. Emergent behavior usually implies the exhibition of some kind of complexity from a fundamentally simple system. But these LLMs are not fundamentally simple, when considered together with the vast corpus of training data to which they are inextricably linked. The emerg…
did you read the article? emergent behavior in this context is defined as: "emergent abilities, which we define as abilities that are not present in small models but are present in larger models" >The emergent behavior of Conway's Game of Life arises purely out of the simple rules upon which the simulation proceeds -- a fundamental difference. this is a meaningless distinction.
Then I don't know why you brought up Game of Life because it obviously has nothing to do with this alternative definition of emergent behavior.
> this is a meaningless distinction.
It's meaningful with respect to the claim that LLMs exhibit emergent behavior in the same way in which Game of Life does.
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>Yet I am still skeptical AI can assemble assets and html from scratch :) the skepticism and the general dismissive tone on HN baffles me. you're talking to a computer in English ffs and it not only understands you, it goes away and does useful work. literal science fiction 5 years ago, and now it's somehow: yawn ???? talk about hard to impress!
If it's remarkable you're easily impressed or you don't know about its shortcomings. Likely it'll remain an engine for parlor tricks and infinite "demos" for foreseeable future, the many critical mistakes it makes make it impractical (you can't trust any information it outputs without verifying yourself it's not a hallucination again). After all the more text you autocomplete, the more text you need to check. You're…