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Re: AI World Clocks

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See https://clock.rt.ht/::code AI-optimized ! People expect perfection on first attempt. This took a brief joint session: HI: define the custom element API design (attribute/property behavior) and the CSS parts AI: draw the rest of the f… owl

This is a white page, am I missing something?

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Re: AI World Clocks

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Yes

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that, and prove it? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214251336212

The proof is that humans do it all the time and that you do it inside your head as well. People need to stop with this absurd level of rampant skepticism that makes them doubt their own basic functions.

Re: AI World Clocks

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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.

I feel like the heuristic could just be - do I feel like I’m in a dream? Then I am. I’ve never felt that way when awake.

Re: AI World Clocks

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Something that struck me when I was looking at the clocks is that we know what a clock is supposed to look and act like. What about when we don't know what it's supposed to look like? Lately I've been wrestling with the fact that unlike, say, a generalized linear model fit to data with some inferential theory, we don't have a theory or model for the uncertainty about LLM products. We recognize when it's off about thi…

I need to be delicate with wording here, but this is why it's a worry that all the least intelligent people you know could be using AI. It's why non-coders think it's doing an amazing job at software. But it's worryingly why using it for research, where you necessarily don't know what you don't know, is going to trip up even smarter people.

You are describing exactly the Dunning-Kruger Effect[0] in action. I’ve worked with some very bright yet less technical people who think the output is some sort of magic lamp and vastly overindex on it. It’s very hard as an engineer to explain this to them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

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Plenty of folks out there know when they are dreaming just like they know when they are awake. It varies from person to person.

be careful as adding consciousness to a dream means CPU cycles so you wake Up more tired, its cool for kids and teens but grown adults shouldnt explore this to avoid bad rest

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Re: AI World Clocks

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Yes

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that, and prove it? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214251336212

the concept is too nebulous to "prove" but the fact im operating a machine (relatively) skillfully to write to you shows we are in fact able to generalise. This wasn't planned, we came up with this. Same with cars etc. We're quite good at the whole "tool use" thing

Re: AI World Clocks

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Think this is just prompt eng tbh. One shot Haiku 3.5 ( https://claude.ai/share/66c17968-485e-4d15-974b-4f6958e1e2fd ) decent looking too. Got it to work on gpt 3.5T w modified prompt (albeit not as good - https://pastebin.com/gjEVSEcJ ) `single html file, working analog clock showing current time, numbers positioned (aligned) correctly via trig calc (dynamic), all three hands, second hand ticks, 400px, clean AF aest…

The catch was that it was limited to 2000 tokens, i.e. the results get cut off once it hits that.

Re: AI World Clocks

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Sonnet 4.5 did this easily https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/c1bb5d57-573b-49e0-9539-7...

The catch was that it was limited to 2000 tokens, i.e. the results get cut off once it hits that.
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