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Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by neuronic »

seizethecheese wrote: post #269
Bjartr wrote: post #207

For comparison, here's the frontpage from ten years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-12-09

Today's front page is not a clean 10 year extrapolation from this. That's where AI is wrong. The future is weird and zig zags, it's not so linear as the Gemini generated page.

This is a problem with nearly all predictions about the future. Everything is just a linear extrapolation of the status quo. How could a system have predicted the invention of the transformer model in 2010? At best some wild guess about deep learning possibilities.

Or the impact of smartphones in 2003? Sure smart phones were considered but not the entire app ecosystem and planetary behavioral adaptation.

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by d0mine »

112233 wrote: post #101
malfist wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is so syncophantic, I can't stand LLMs that try to hype you up as if you're some genius, brilliant mind instead of yet another average joe.

It it actively dangerous too. You might be self aware and llm aware all you want, if you routinely read "This is such an excellent point", " You are absolutely right" and so on, it does your mind in. This is worst kind of global reality show mkultra...

It might explain why there is a stereotype the more beautiful woman the crazier she is. (everybody tells her what she wants to hear)

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by LordDragonfang »

kbelder wrote: post #293
iambateman wrote: post #61

This was a fun little lark. Great idea! It’s interesting to notice how bad AI is at gaming out a 10-year future. It’s very good at predicting the next token but maybe even worse than humans—who are already terrible—at making educated guesses about the state of the world in a decade. I asked Claude: “Think ten years into the future about the state of software development. What is the most likely scenario?” And the ans…

A while back I gave it a prompt, something like, "I'm a historian from the far future. Please give me a documentary-style summary of the important political and cultural events of the decade of the 1980s." It did ok, then I kept asking for "Now, the 1990s?" and kept going into future decades. "Now, the 2050s?" It made some fun extrapolations.

Assuming it was through the chatgpt interface, you can share an anonymized link to the chat if you want to show it off (I'd certainly be curious).

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by yieldcrv »

andy_ppp wrote: post #393

Is this really Gemini because it shows a great deal of understanding in terms of time applied to common current headlines that you could argue it is satire. I’m not sure I believed AI could do this…

Even 2.5 pro could do this

3 is a beast for my needs

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by yieldcrv »

moffkalast wrote: post #175
seatac76 wrote: post #129

Google kills Gemini is just hilarious.

Gemini manages to seamlessly weave a desperate cry for assisted suicide into anything it does haha.

I never read what it writes, I added an observability feature because my boss asked for that and yeah I could see it trying to order MAID over telehealth

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by LordDragonfang »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #235
asveikau wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They also already used Debian trixie for 13.0. I wonder if it's an intended joke that they ran out of names and needed to re-use some.

It’s an LLM, there was no intention. It’s simply the favoured token given the training set and seed.

This type of response is just stochastic parrotry, rather than displaying evidence of actual .

Yet more evidence that LLMs are more similar to humans than we give them credit for.

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Post by robocat »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #182
malfist wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is so syncophantic, I can't stand LLMs that try to hype you up as if you're some genius, brilliant mind instead of yet another average joe.

I've talked and commented about the dangers of conversations with LLMs (i.e. they activate human social wiring and have a powerful effect, even if you know it's not real. Studies show placebo pills have a statistically significant effect even when the study participant knows it's a placebo -- the effect here is similar). Despite knowing and articulating that, I fell into a rabbit hole with Claude about a month ago wh…

> LLMs activate human social wiring and have a powerful effect

Is this generally true, or is there a subset of people that are particularly susceptible?

It does make me want to dive into the rabbit hole and be convinced by an LLM conversation.

I've got some tendency where I enjoy the idea of deeply screwing with my own mind (even dangerously so to myself (not others)).

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