can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis
replyThis is what came to my mind first too. It feels like the sort of thing you could come up with after a lot of ‘that’s a great insight!’, with the LLM eventually projecting absolute certainty that it’s a ground-breaking idea that’s definitely going to work.
I’m not sure whether I like that this is my knee-jerk reaction.
Do they have any sort of prototypes of this hardware that’s going to be working reliably in their custom-built spa in the notoriously difficult-to-get-permits-in San Francisco by the end of next year?…
> David Holz is the Founder & CEO of Midjourney, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform that allows users to generate unique artwork such as characters, images and depictions through short text prompts.
replyI guess they pivoted from making ai-artwork to ultrasounds?
They founded LeapMotion previously which was pretty big and totally unrelated to AI. They've been doing all sorts of shenanigans it seems
replyAlso fmr cofounder of leap motion, which developed a mouse that didn't you to touch it!
reply> can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis
replyWhat do you mean here?
The idea came from LLMs? They built this with LLMs?
They are probably referring to the very real and unfortunate phenomenon wherein people use LLMs as sounding boards without consulting other humans, current frontier LLMs being heavily sycophantic in their responses.
replyThis tends to create a feedback loop where unsound ideas are amplified.
So the idea is Midjourney uses LLMs as a sounding board and came up with this idea?
replyYeah. This is a "Long Blockchain"-tier pivot and it will go nowhere.
replyCurrent Vibes:
You can just build things
reply“Just building” radiation emitters like CT scanners is a bad idea.
replyThis is ultrasound. You didn’t read the article. It’s perfectly safe.
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