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AI World Clocks
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Re: AI World Clocks
#312Interesting idea!
Why is a new clock being rendered every minute? Or AI models are evolving and improving every minute.
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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if it's because we mean different things by generalization. For text, "generalization" is still "generate text that conforms to all the usual rules of the language". For images of 13-hour clock faces, we're explicitly asking the LLM to violate the inferred rules of the universe. I think a good analogy would be asking an LLM to write in English, except the word "the" now means "purple". They will struggle to…
That's true, but I think humans would stumble a lot too (try reading old printed text from the 18fh cenfury where fhey used "f" insfead of t in prinf, if's a real frick fo gef frough). However humans are pretty adept at discerning images, even ones outside the norm. I really think there is some kind of architectural block hampering transformers ability to really "see" images. For instance if you show any model a pict…
An "f" never replaced a "t".
You probably mean the "long s" that looks like an "f".
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#314It's really beautiful! Super clean UI.
The thing I always want from timezone tools is: “Let me simulate a date after one side has shifted but the other hasn’t.”
Humans do badly with DST offset transitions; computers do great with them.
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#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clock drawing is widely used as a test for assessing dementia. Sometimes the LLMs fail in ways that are fairly predictable if you're familiar with CSS and typical shortcomings of LLMs, but sometimes they fail in ways that are less obvious from a technical perspective but are exactly the same failure modes as cognitively-impaired humans. I think you might have stumbled upon something surprisingly profound. https://www…
> Clock drawing is widely used as a test for assessing dementia Interestingly, clocks are also an easy tell for when you're dreaming, if you're a lucid dreamer; they never work normally in dreams.
In lucid dreams there's a whole category of things like this: reading a paragraph of text, looking at a clock (digital or analog), or working any kind of technology more complex than a calculator.
For me personally, even light switches have been a huge tell in the past, so basically almost anything electrical.
I've always held the utterly unscientific position that this is because the brain only has enough GPU cycles to show you an approximation of what the dream world looks like, but to actually run a whole simulation behind the scenes would require more FLOPs than it has available. After all, the brain also needs to run the "player" threads: It's already super busy.
Stretching the analogy past the point of absurdity, this is a bit like modern video game optimizations: the mountains in the distance are just a painting on a surface, and the remote on that couch is just a messy blur of pixels when you look at it up close.
So the dreaming brain is like a very clever video game developer, I guess.
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Clock drawing is widely used as a test for assessing dementia Interestingly, clocks are also an easy tell for when you're dreaming, if you're a lucid dreamer; they never work normally in dreams.
In lucid dreams there's a whole category of things like this: reading a paragraph of text, looking at a clock (digital or analog), or working any kind of technology more complex than a calculator. For me personally, even light switches have been a huge tell in the past, so basically almost anything electrical. I've always held the utterly unscientific position that this is because the brain only has enough GPU cycles…
Wait, lucid dreamers need tells to know where they are?!?
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#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
In lucid dreams there's a whole category of things like this: reading a paragraph of text, looking at a clock (digital or analog), or working any kind of technology more complex than a calculator. For me personally, even light switches have been a huge tell in the past, so basically almost anything electrical. I've always held the utterly unscientific position that this is because the brain only has enough GPU cycles…
Wait, lucid dreamers need tells to know where they are?!?
Yes, that's how you enter the lucid state. You find ways to tell that you're dreaming and condition yourself to check for those while awake. Eventually you will do it inside a dream and realize that you're dreaming.
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#318Since the first (good) image generation models became available, I've been trying to get them to generate an image of a clock with 13 instead of the usual 12 hour divisions. I have not been successful. Usually they will just replace the "12" with a "13" and/or mess up the clock face in some other way. I'd be interested if anyone else is successful. Share how you did it!
I was able to have AI generate an image that made this, but not by diffusion/autoregressive but by having it write Python code to create the image.
ChatGPT made a nice looking clock with matplotlib that had some bugs that it had to fix (hours were counter-clockwise). Gemini made correct code one-shot, it used Pillow instead of matplotlib, but it didn't look as nice.
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clock drawing is widely used as a test for assessing dementia. Sometimes the LLMs fail in ways that are fairly predictable if you're familiar with CSS and typical shortcomings of LLMs, but sometimes they fail in ways that are less obvious from a technical perspective but are exactly the same failure modes as cognitively-impaired humans. I think you might have stumbled upon something surprisingly profound. https://www…
> Clock drawing is widely used as a test for assessing dementia Interestingly, clocks are also an easy tell for when you're dreaming, if you're a lucid dreamer; they never work normally in dreams.
For me it’s phones… specifically dialling a number manually. No matter how carefully I dial, the number on the screen is rarely correct.