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Comment · 2 years ago
To play the devil's advocate: AI allows non-tech people to bootstrap a functional application. A global good design may be missing when the code is generated in small quantities and stitched together. It's sloppy in the sense that it cannot be maintained and extended easily but it works™

The ideas underlying the implementation are not necessarily tied to the implementation given the skill gap.

Comment · 2 years ago
Excellent visuals! The 18th century warship video is a good watch too. It's a nice comparison to the ship described in this one.
Comment · 2 years ago
Great project!

For long running containerised simulations, this saves a lot of time on failures ( as long as you have a safe place to write the snapshots to ) by not restarting from 0 every time.

Comment · 2 years ago
No, I did not make that assumption. His answer to the investigator's question should have been what the operating handbook says and not an opinion he held.

Even he was offering an opinion as addendum (that may have been edited out of context in reporting), it shouldn't be this one.

Comment · 2 years ago
> His opinion was that the Cessna 185 simply didn’t stall.

There's your problem. Don't opine on operating characteristics of a production aircraft. Read the handbook. This incident was caused by poor airmanship.

Comment · 3 years ago
People draw an arbitrary line of difference in the way we treat AI programs and human outputs.

A human imagining orcs and one horned horses has 'fantastical, larger than life' imagination but AI generation drawing people with strange hands is 'incorrect'.

These are not one to one examples but the point stands that with enough suspension of belief, people are more likely to take on human creations at face value than AI when they know the source.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Pasting all plain text on the discussion page here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34470287 as of 22-01-2022 16:00Z renders Hilbert curve prominently while the rest is a Hodge podge of blocks and lines.
Comment · 3 years ago
Did something similar with a previous incarnation of OpenAI's LLMs - codex.

Far more constrained no doubt but it made some things convenient like finding obscure `ls` flags.

Comment · 4 years ago
Waymo has demonstrated capability (in a limited sense) with full self-driving so I'm excited for this to take off.

What concerns me are the screens. They are going to play ads on a loop. Phone ads to car ads to house ads. We'll get the no billboard demands because your screens are the boards!

Comment · 4 years ago

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