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Re: Infinite Craft

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This shows quite well that AI has zero common sense whatsoever, the results of most combinations I made are just nonsense. The associations are really vague and to me it is not interesting at all to look at random pictures and words appearing out of totally unrelated stuff. I really like man-made alchemy games though where all combinations are pre-defined and actually feel right.

I found it fun regardless. HN, I proudly produce to you my newest invention: Beer + Lens = Beer Goggles.

Re: Infinite Craft

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post #193
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forest + fire = smoke Mud + water = swamp Swamp + plant = Venus Flytrap Okay, okay. Venus Flytrap + Smoke = smoke detector

Fish + fire = sushi

Did you know that Bill Gates is the richest samurai?

Re: Infinite Craft

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Can't believe I was the first to find "boobs". The 12 year-old combined "tomb raider" and "jiggle". LOL. It's actually a useful word. I can change anything male into female.

Lots of other funny combinations: Burger King + Business = McDonalds Disney + Motive = Money Princess + Cleavage = Disney

Plenty of political ones: President + Dictator = Trump White House + Flame = Trump Trump + Bribe = Impeachment Trump + Impeachment = ??? (literally three question marks) Obama + Home = Change

And a few questionable: Slave + Plant = Cannabis Jamaica + Garden = Marijuana

This is actually great fun. I wish I could sort the words alphabetically. I also wish there was a save feature. Oh, and that first discoveries were highlighted in the word list.

Re: Infinite Craft

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Classic game, but there is some merge that make no sense to me, how does fire and whale make a dragon ?

I got dragon from fire + swamp.

Another strange one was puddle + rock = pudding + dragon = custard.

Re: Infinite Craft

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Tree + Water = river was also pretty baffling. Unfortunate. I can see the appeal of using an LLM for this but the results are pretty mediocre.

Meh, what would be your great response to Tree + Water? A human can only generate a small fraction of the combinations and would have a hard time coming up with most combinations which are already nonsensical. What is your non-disappointing idea for, idk, Tears + Pottery (AI: Bowl) or Money + Salt Lick (AI: Cow) or Skull + Lake (AI: Loch Ness) or Dracula + Pirate (AI: Vampirate) or Curse + Money (AI: Debt)? Now do th…

> Tears + Pottery (AI: Bowl)

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Re: Infinite Craft

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post #9

I couldn't find any information but does this use some kind of LLM to derive the combinations from? It makes a request to the backend every time you combine items which sometimes takes >500ms, and also supports some really wild combinations that I highly doubt someone has taken the time to come up with. It would also explain why the icons are emoji's, it would be fairly trivial to ask ChatGPT to give you the result o…

An LLM seems like overkill for a project like this. Why not word2vec?

I had the same thought.

Some of the surprising discoveries I made with word2vec embeddings:

human + robot ~= cyborg

silicon + electricity ~= solar cells

virtual reality + reality ~= augmented reality

As reported here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160806040004if_/http://blog.yh...

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