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The cool projects these new models make are so comprehensive that I feel I'll always just be an admirer and never a user. I watch the videos, say "wow, neat", and then never feel like visiting them again.

I almost feel like saying, "we do like to build things that are impressive, but there's really only so much I can be impressed". These models have redlined my "impress-o-meter".

I'd like them to now cure cancer instead of giving me endless 3d worlds and crazy games, etc.

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Do you feel that you have no use for such comprehensive products? Have you never thought, "Man, I really wish that there was software to do XYZ, but programming it would be too much work, even with current AI?
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>Do you feel that you have no use for such comprehensive products?

I don't have the time to use them because I'm working on my own comprehensive projects that other people won't use because they're working on their own comprehensive projects. I joke, but it does feel that way sometimes.

>Have you never thought, "Man, I really wish that there was software to do XYZ, but programming it would be too much work, even with current AI?

Only speaking for myself, I've already built all the ideas I've had in my head my entire career. There doesn't seem to be anything coming along to replace those ideas. I suppose I might not be creative enough in my advancing years, I don't know.

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Dare to dream!
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The average person uses social media, and Microsoft office suite. They really don’t require much else. Social media doesn’t get disrupted by software, and MS Office was already disrupted by Google suite, if you didn’t make the transition then, you ain’t gonna make it now.
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20 years ago the average person used a hoe and a cooking pot on three rocks over a wood fire. Now they use WhatsApp, and in a few months they'll be using ChatGPT, but not Microsoft Office. But I wasn't talking to the average person. I was talking to djeastm.
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Not sure what your cohort for "average person" is, but 20 years ago was 2006 not ancient rome. We had avoided the millenium crisis, and I was playing Counter Strike against people over the internet.
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My reference group for "average person" is people. (What else could it possibly be?) There are 8.3 billion of them now, and there were 6.7 billion 20 years ago. 02007 (19 years ago) was the year when the median person transitioned from living in the country, either on a farm or herding livestock, to living in a town or city: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization#cite_ref-urbaniza...

One side of my family has lived in cities and towns for over 100 years, but they were not average.

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These are all incredibly well made, and yet right now, as I'm writing this comment one minute after changing tabs, I don't remember anything except for the last one with the portals. It's much better than humans at several tasks, most of which I haven't seen any humans do.

This is really cool! But at the same time it's a kaleidoscope of abandoned flashy contextless projects that eventually makes one dizzy. This isn't even the fault of the AI being somehow bad, it's just the way people interact with it sometimes...

In math, it's the same. I follow this problem (https://wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Logical_independence#Histo...) out of curiosity, and there were ten days of sudden rapid progress by people with access to frontier models, and then they seem to have moved on without any note of whether they hit a wall or just got bored.

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That video blew me away. Perhaps I just haven't been keeping up with what SOTA models can do with animation now, but the quality of that animation was far beyond what I realised they're capable of.
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> That video blew me away.

It's AI, i.e. fake stuff.

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What do you mean with fake? It's an animated video. Is every animated video for you a fake video? Probably not. Fake implies to me that it is trying to make the viewer think it is something it's not, e.g. a video of a politician saying something they never said. At least to me the video showcasing the capabilities of the model wouldn't fit that definition.
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> What do you mean with fake?

It doesn't have a human mind and especially a human feel behind it, simple as. It's like the famous example with what pornography is in the eyes of that judge, i.e. "You know it [the fake-ness, that is], when you see it", once you start looking for reasons for why it isn't fake you've already lost the battle.

The problem is that making us believe that fake isn't really fake is put in the balance with literally trillions of dollars asking us to believe just that (i.e. that fake isn't really fake), so I agree that for the time being stating the obvious is still an uphill battle.

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I loved the nod to @simonw in the portals demo reel - the "Pelican Peloton" world at about 42 seconds in.
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Wow that Portal/Endless Worlds experiment is just insane!
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Thanks for sharing!
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This part is amazing. They really are like us:

> A few days later, I noticed that instead of hundreds of new worlds a day, it was making about a dozen. I asked a few agents to explore what had happened, and they found something surprising.

> The AI had built a bureaucracy.

> The agents decided that my request to “polish” existing worlds meant each new version had to beat the old one in a blind vote by a group of judge agents on twelve test screenshots. So the teams making the new versions started optimizing the worlds for those particular screenshots. After noticing this, the lead agent banned the trick and created tighter rules for assessing new versions. By the next morning there was a rule book (I never asked for one) with 84 sections. Rules were added as the AI encountered issues, and no text was ever cut. After twelve days, it had 204 sections and 87,500 words. Soon, launching a new world required an approved idea, three AI judges and a full code review against the rule book.

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> and they found something surprising.

> The AI had built a bureaucracy.

I hate this AI-generated tone.

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>I stopped the experiment before finding out whether it could actually run the business, because I worried that it would take money and fail to provide something of quality in return.

Well, must have been some business idea!

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omg where do I start... that horrible video? which highlights the limits of AI not the strengths!!! and gets almost everything wrong, from sunflowers to DNA.
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What about the DNA is wrong? I even looked up the insulin sequence and it seems to be there (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_000011.10?strand=2&r...).
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How long would it have taken you to make that horrible video hand-coded?
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As predicted by others as well, AI will propel many at light speed toward mediocrity. If you have mediocre ideas now, AI won't save you from yourself.
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Mediocre? Pre-AI, someone who made that video wouldn't be able to stop the flood of job offers coming their way.
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Why would us, humans, want to make AI-looking videos?
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He asked for impressive, not accurate
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No comparison with Opus 5.5, which is disappointing.
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that first video sure is some slickly produced slop that occasionally looks good
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