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How Artificial Intelligence Is Impacting the Lego Community

29 points by makaimc 3y ago

rideontime 3y ago
> Full transparency #2: I used ChatGPT to help me write this article. This disclaimer wasn't necessary, it was very obvious.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
  I swear I must be awful at reading voice. There's nothing that makes it even remotely obvious to me other than the certainty that an AI-detection AI would have detected it as AI-written. Are there any passages you can point to and explain how you observe it as ChatGPT-written?
  - sdwr 3y ago
    I wouldn't have noticed without the disclaimer, but it's quite poorly written, in a glossy, vapid sense. It bounces between personal comments and sweeping, overwrought generalizations. > This is the democratization of design at its core – a shift from an exclusive club of skilled builders to a universal playground where anyone with a passion for LEGO can partake in the creation process. In this vein, the intersection of AI and LEGO is not just a meeting of technology and toy but a union of futures and pasts, of pixels and plastic – a synergy that promises to craft not just models, but bridges between ages, cultures, and the myriad dimensions of human creativity is just a polished turd of a paragraph
  - rideontime 3y ago
    I don't have time to go back now, but the sibling's "polished turd" comment is perfect. Extremely verbose phrasing that says nothing of substance.
  - nicbou 3y ago
    Brevity is the soul of wit, and ChatGPT struggles with it. GPT-written texts tend to read like a verbose average of everything it was trained on. If you've come across a lot of SEO filler text, it reads exactly the same.
owenpalmer 3y ago
It would be cool to see an AI powered LEGO set design suite. First generate the cover image, then generate a low res 3d point cloud, calculate the individual LEGO pieces, analyze the structural integrity with specialized tools, and select portions of the model to regenerate/iterate. Then calculate the cost of the model base on listings from sites like bricklink.
Ancalagon 3y ago
Off topic: the ai generated language hallucinations are fascinating to me because they remind me so much of what language looks like when I try to read a book when I’m dreaming. Pure nonsense.
eternityforest 3y ago
These AI pictures kind of make real Lego seem almost disappointing. I'd probably be a lot more into the adult Lego stuff if you could really do things like this, but it would be like 70% specialized pieces and not really Lego anymore.

29 points by makaimc 3y ago

> Full transparency #2: I used ChatGPT to help me write this article. This disclaimer wasn't necessary, it was very obvious.

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
I swear I must be awful at reading voice. There's nothing that makes it even remotely obvious to me other than the certainty that an AI-detection AI would have detected it as AI-written. Are there any passages you can point to and explain how you observe it as ChatGPT-written?
- sdwr 3y ago
  I wouldn't have noticed without the disclaimer, but it's quite poorly written, in a glossy, vapid sense. It bounces between personal comments and sweeping, overwrought generalizations. > This is the democratization of design at its core – a shift from an exclusive club of skilled builders to a universal playground where anyone with a passion for LEGO can partake in the creation process. In this vein, the intersection of AI and LEGO is not just a meeting of technology and toy but a union of futures and pasts, of pixels and plastic – a synergy that promises to craft not just models, but bridges between ages, cultures, and the myriad dimensions of human creativity is just a polished turd of a paragraph
- rideontime 3y ago
  I don't have time to go back now, but the sibling's "polished turd" comment is perfect. Extremely verbose phrasing that says nothing of substance.
- nicbou 3y ago
  Brevity is the soul of wit, and ChatGPT struggles with it. GPT-written texts tend to read like a verbose average of everything it was trained on. If you've come across a lot of SEO filler text, it reads exactly the same.

owenpalmer 3y ago

It would be cool to see an AI powered LEGO set design suite. First generate the cover image, then generate a low res 3d point cloud, calculate the individual LEGO pieces, analyze the structural integrity with specialized tools, and select portions of the model to regenerate/iterate. Then calculate the cost of the model base on listings from sites like bricklink.

Ancalagon 3y ago

Off topic: the ai generated language hallucinations are fascinating to me because they remind me so much of what language looks like when I try to read a book when I’m dreaming. Pure nonsense.

eternityforest 3y ago

These AI pictures kind of make real Lego seem almost disappointing. I'd probably be a lot more into the adult Lego stuff if you could really do things like this, but it would be like 70% specialized pieces and not really Lego anymore.