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Re: Karpathy’s Pelican

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Post by micromacrofoot »

budsniffer952 wrote: post #13
quantumleaper wrote: post #7

I'm sad that Andrej Karpathy went from being one of the most reasonable, trusted, and credible voices in AI to peddling marketing slop for Anthropic. 8 months ago, he was (very reasonably) claiming that reliable agents are at least a decade away, but this now goes against the interest of his employer, so the narrative has been changed.

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you're doing the exact same thing by making the inverse claim without any information, at least the original comment claims some change for someone to investigate... all you're doing is disagreeing as an opportunity to be snarky

Re: Karpathy’s Pelican

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Post by manofmanysmiles »

bredren wrote: post #8

I worked with an LLM to build a ~3D animation of the Back to the Future delorean Time Machine as a way to spice up the hero on a docs page. That took a fair amount of custom tuning and I had to create a tuning view to get some of the behaviors right. But it was enough fun that I generalized it to take in ~any scene description from a film. It goes out and gets more detailed descriptions and film stills if available b…

I am interested, I'd love to see! I'm waiting for the day my dad's self published books become self produced movies!

Re: Karpathy’s Pelican

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Post by throwaway27448 »

QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #17
throwaway27448 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looked pretty useful in 2009. Failing to push it was baffling then too.

It was open sourced as Apache Wave when Google shut it down. Years later Apache moved it to read only because of low community activity. The archived git repo on GitHub remains available to clone and revive as a fork. https://github.com/apache/incubator-retired-wave

This doesn't explain the lack of marketing. Apache isn't exactly known for pushing tech. Google never tried to improve on gmail.

Re: Karpathy’s Pelican

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Post by NitpickLawyer »

trentor wrote: post #34

I always thought of the Pelican more of like a gimmicky quick test. There are people who took it as a serious benchmark for overall model performance?

"Draw a pelican on a bicycle" is not a serious benchmark.

"Draw an animation of this long ass scene from a movie, and only call me when everything works e2e" can be.

Re: Karpathy’s Pelican

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Post by forrestthewoods »

As a former gamedev watching non-gamedev AI talk about games is so amusing. They really truly do not understand anything about games or consumer entertainment.

There’s a reason AI slop games have literally zero engagement. Last summer that stupid flying game blew up. Maybe a million people “played” the game. Where play means they clicked a link and checked it out not because of what the game was but solely because of how it was made.

In terms of concurrent players that game wouldn’t have cracked the Top 5,000 on Steam.

My metric for AI games is “number of players who spent more than 15 minutes playing”. I’m not aware of any vibeslop that has achieved 1 such player.

Now obviously LLMs are transformative for game dev. But “hyper custom worlds you can drop into” shows an extreme ignorance of what players want imho.

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