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Re: AI World Clocks

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Post by anon_cow1111 »

perfmode wrote: post #232
anon_cow1111 wrote: post #224

I'm having a hard time believing this site is honest, especially with how ridiculous the scaling and rotation of numbers is for most of them. I dumped his prompt into chatgpt to try it myself and it did create a very neat clock face with the numbers at the correct position+animated second hand, it just got the exact time wrong, being a few hours off. Edit: the time may actually have been perfect now that I account fo…

i read that the OP limited the output to 2000 tokens.

I got a ~1600 character reply from gpt, including spaces and it worked first shot dumping into an html doc. I think that probably fits ok in the limit? (If I missed something obvious feel free to tell me I'm an idiot)

Re: AI World Clocks

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Post by ks2048 »

lanewinfield wrote: post #94

hi, I made this. thank you for posting. I love clocks and I love finding the edges of what any given technology is capable of. I've watched this for many hours and Kimi frequently gets the most accurate clock but also the least variation and is most boring. Qwen is often times the most insane and makes me laugh. Which one is "better?"

Nice job! Maybe let users click an example to see the raw source (LLM output)

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Post by chemotaxis »

lanewinfield wrote: post #94

hi, I made this. thank you for posting. I love clocks and I love finding the edges of what any given technology is capable of. I've watched this for many hours and Kimi frequently gets the most accurate clock but also the least variation and is most boring. Qwen is often times the most insane and makes me laugh. Which one is "better?"

This is honestly the best thing I've seen on HN this month. It's stupid, enlightening... funny and profound and the same time. I have a strong temptation to pick some of these designs and build them in real life.

I applaud you for spending money to get it done.

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Post by vultour »

Waterluvian wrote: post #151
bloppe wrote: post #143

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CSS animation. It's not the real time. Just a hypothetical time.

I’m imagining some must be using JS because I’m seeing (rarely…) times that are perfectly correct.

It's crafted with a prompt that gives the AI the current time, then it simply refreshes every minute so the seconds start at zero correctly.

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Post by int_19h »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #179
bArray wrote: post #104

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It could be that the prompt is accidentally (or purposefully) more optimised for Kimi K2, or that Kimi K2 is better trained on this particular data. LLM's need "prompt engineers" for a reason to get the most out of a particular model.

How much engineering do prompt engineers do? Is it engineering when you add "photorealistic. correct number of fingers and teeth. High quality." to the end of a prompt? we should call them "prompt witch doctors" or maybe "prompt alchemists".

I write quite a lot of prompts, and the closest analogy that I can think of is a shaman trying to appease the spirits.

Re: AI World Clocks

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Post by int_19h »

ryandrake wrote: post #77
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #63

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This is really cool. I tried to prompt gemini but every time I got the same picture . I do not know how to share a session (like it is possible with Chatgpt) but the prompts were If a clock had 13 hours, what would be the angle between two of these 13 hours? Generate an image of such a clock No, I want the clock to have 13 distinct hours, with the angle between them as you calculated above This is the same image. The…

This is probably my biggest problem with AI tools, having played around with them more lately. "You're absolutely right! I made a mistake. I have now comprehensively solved this problem. Here is the corrected output: [totally incorrect output]." None of them ever seem to have the ability to say "I cannot seem to do this" or "I am uncertain if this is correct, confidence level 25%" The only time they will give up or r…

Gemini specifically is actually kinda notorious for giving up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1mp5mks/this_is...

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Post by jrflowers »

jahewson wrote: post #227
WJW wrote: post #219

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Well if it works consistently, I don't see any problem with that. If they have a clear theory of when to add "photorealistic" and when to add "correct number of wheels on the bus" to get the output they want, it's engineering. If they don't have a (falsifiable) theory, it's probably not engineering. Of course, the service they really provide is for businesses to feel they "do AI", and whether or not they do real engi…

Maybe we could keep the conversation out of the gutter.

You don’t really see much porn in the gutters these days with the decline in popularity of print publishing. It’s almost all online now

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Post by minikomi »

int_19h wrote: post #246
bigfishrunning wrote: post #179

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How much engineering do prompt engineers do? Is it engineering when you add "photorealistic. correct number of fingers and teeth. High quality." to the end of a prompt? we should call them "prompt witch doctors" or maybe "prompt alchemists".

I write quite a lot of prompts, and the closest analogy that I can think of is a shaman trying to appease the spirits.

I find it a surprisingly similar mindset to songwriting, a lot of local maxima searching and spaghetti flinging. Sometime you hit a good groove and explore it.
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