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Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by ux-app »

shock-value wrote: post #139
ux-app wrote: post #118

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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.

> 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" 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 emergen…

>It's meaningful with respect to the claim that LLMs exhibit emergent behavior in the same way in which Game of Life does.

I said it's amazing in __similar__ ways to Conway's Game of Life.

i.e. a system which behaves in unexpected ways (emergent abilities) and is greater than the sum of its parts.

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by Taurenking »

echelon wrote: post #132
beepbooptheory wrote: post #53

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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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Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by janeway »

krashidov wrote: post #149
janeway wrote: post #142

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Here is my example. In the last two weeks I have rewritten, from scratch, one of my genomics pipelines which can analyse 1000 clinical exomes in a few hours to return candidate genetic causes of rare disease. * 42 scripts/programs. * 3694 lines of code. * Several languages. * Process raw fastq data up to germline variant calling. * Using high-performance computing cluster. * Process vcf data into clinical variant int…

Which specific tools have you been using? Just a general dialogue with chatGPT or a are you using CoPilot?

Only ChatGPT. I usually state bullet points and pseudocode and ask for answer, or current code with request to fix the error. With good requests I usually get a working answer but sometimes need careful checking.

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by Towaway69 »

gcanyon wrote: post #128
Towaway69 wrote: post #114

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Ironically cars have basically not changed since the 1900s: 4 wheels, a steering wheel and a polluting oil-based engine. Sure we're now (100 years later) moving to computer steering and rare-earth elements batteries but the 4 wheels remain! We have peaks in technology, then tend to profit before the innovation restarts - when profits sink.

What would you use to replace the 4 wheels? To the point, cars still have 4 wheels for the same reason wagons had four wheels before cars existed: 3 wheels are much less stable, 5 adds significant complexity, and nothing other than wheels would be as efficient.

Hoover crafts, helicopters, planes, ... all have no wheels (for transportation).

I wasn't meaning to be specific about the 4 wheels, I was trying to point out that innovation happens when necessity makes it necessary - why do we have batteries in cars even though the very first cars[1] were electric?

[1]= April 1881 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl...

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by hourago »

ux-app wrote: post #45
slimebot80 wrote: post #32

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…

>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!

> the skepticism and the general dismissive tone on HN baffles me.

I think that it comes from having high expectations. It took me four or five questions until Open AI chat started to write lies, and half trues. When talking with it I feel like a teacher trying to get the correct answer from a student that does not get it. I give it cues, tips, bound the answer and yet it manages to get things wrong.

So, the worst part of Open AI chat is that it gets very boring to work with after the first awe.

It is a great piece of technology, it is impressive. But as a product it is dull. And I need to double check its answer with Google each time, so why bother?

Using Chat AI for Bing is like using blockchain for cryptocurrencies. It is a solution looking for a problem. Bing is the wrong answer, people should accept that and look for better uses for it. They are out there for sure.

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by dr_dshiv »

hypothesis wrote: post #66
dr_dshiv wrote: post #58

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It’s going to be an ecosystem of intelligence, just like it already is today. The notion of “an intelligence” is going to go away. The singularity is real and AGI is here —but it isn’t like some runaway single agent that self improves and takes over the world. Just wait till it all starts talking to each other, training each other, using each other, all in convergence with humans. It’s very real. And very weird.

Is there anything to stop them from using other against others? Will they start using humans as a tool too?

Yeah, once AI gets bank accounts (easy, via people), it can directly hire people.

Of course, arguably artificial intelligence is much older than this— and the bylaws of corporations constitute the algorithmic utilization of people.

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by arcturus17 »

echelon wrote: post #132
beepbooptheory wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The “GPT is going to wash away everything” discourse sounded familiar here on HN and of course, I had read it multiple times on your posts bordering on spam.

I don’t know if your tech is going to wash away anything, and I do wish you good luck, but CNN has been digging their own grave for the best part of a decade and you claiming the credit for taking them down is some of the worst hubris I’ve read on HN.

As for the applications of LLM I’ll take François Chollet’s view that they may be more limited than many people are claiming.

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by koonsolo »

paxys wrote: post #25

While such examples are no doubt impressive, I haven't seen these AI tools do anything that couldn't otherwise be achieved by following a simple online tutorial. Bootstrap a fresh project, write hello world or fizzbuzz-equivalent code in a random programming language, generate a landing page...all of these tasks have long been commodified and aren't exactly worth big money. So I'm not scared for my job just yet . "Bu…

> that couldn't otherwise be achieved by following a simple online tutorial.

Would love to see you produce photo-realistic art by "following a simple online tutorial"

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by throwaway290 »

slimebot80 wrote: post #140
throwaway290 wrote: post #127

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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…

I'll take your word for it, but pesky parlor tricks have been persisting in impressing people for a good few centuries now.

There are tricks and there are transformative changes but they are not the same. In this case the flashy trick is based on some interesting developments but IMO it's unclear whether they will lead to transformative changes

Re: Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

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Post by throwaway290 »

dd36 wrote: post #135
throwaway290 wrote: post #126

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> 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.

What is thinking?

You are asking the right question.
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