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Meanwhile, Star Trek has been using natural language for a few decades now, and it works pretty well. Considering they also predicted iPads, we might want to take it at face value.
star trek is also fictional where things happen as the writers wish it to… the real world is not subject to such restrictions
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I’ve brought this up in another thread, but we already have evidence that in certain cases it is desirable to trade off specificity for just “getting something done”, that evidence is Python. Python succeeds despite not having a serious type system, because often times you can get something that achieves your goal despite the 25 bugs in your program that would have been caught by a real type system. On the other side…
Just look at JavaScript. Types don't matter so much, look at the modern web.
I knew that Blender has the possibility to script and access all the UI elements with python. So it was only a matter of time :)
I know this tech is terrifying to actual 3D artist who don’t want be a “prompt engineer”, but as someone who has never used Blender, I think its cool that I can create something using tools like this and use them in my projects, ex background animation on a website hero section.
My predication: in the next 5~10 years, most artists won't be "prompt engineers". Instead they'll focus on fix small details on AI-generated art.
It's still kinda sad tho, because it's usually the most tedious and boring part of the process. Now AI is taking the fun part and leaving the unfun part to humans.
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If so, then this means the good boss will soon no longer need employees , as the LLMs will deliver better results faster and cheaper.
Who will buy the bosses' shit if everyone is unemployed and can't afford it? Companies can't stay afloat by just buying from each other.
Until We started to see LLMs, and the tools that can be created with them, I doubted the possibility of Star Trek's Voice command system. Asking for the computer to clarify some concept, or filter and reduce data sets based on arbitrary data was pure science fiction. Seeing something like this makes me think that the arbitrary holodeck commands "Paris, 1950's, rainy afternoon" is suddenly not a challenging part of th…
Here's an image result from MidJourney for "Paris, 1950s, rainy afternoon". No additional editing, and I intentionally avoided adding any text to the prompt beyond your own. https://i.imgur.com/IYuh29H.png Not perfect but man, we're getting pretty close.
Famous quote: "Wouldn't it be nice if our machines were smart enough to allow programming in natural language?". Well, natural languages are most suitable for their original purposes, viz. to be ambiguous in, to tell jokes in and to make love in, but most unsuitable for any form of even mildly sophisticated precision. And if you don't believe that, either try to read a modern legal document and you will immediately s…
"The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse rapidly through the medium of line drawings. Heretofore, most interaction between men and computers has been slowed down by the need to reduce all communication to written statements that can be typed" - Sutherland
"Computer: tea, earl gray, hot." We're nearing the precipice of more natural human-computer interaction that will need to rethink the interfaces and conventions. Alexa and Siri seem like Model T Fords when there's a jet aircraft flying overhead. I'm thinking these agents need to be replaced by more natural agents who can co-create a language with their human counterparts rather than relying on fixed, awkward, and som…
I think Douglas Adams was closer to the truth on the subject of AIs and tea. I don't want to be overly cynical but I suspect we'll just get used to saying "OK, close enough" when dealing with LLMs.
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For me the interesting job in software is designing architecture and implementing complex things. Automation with tools like this is not remotely there and to some extent probably won't be because we're often talking about human preferences and subjective design choices. Gpt4 in software is Intellisense++ right now, it provides code snippets for things you want to do, it's just raising the bar of abstraction, not rep…
And while doing so income disparity has kept increasing. Eventually we need to stop and think about how capitalism is winner take all, or we're all in for a very bad time.