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> This is obviously subjective, but most people wouldn't look at any practical software and call it great. This what I think is insane. We interact with proba
by wvenable 2y ago
> This is obviously subjective, but most people wouldn't look at any practical software and call it great.
This what I think is insane. We interact with probably thousands of pieces of software every day (and I'm probably off by an order of magnitude) and none of it is great? What is the bar here?
It's funny that something that was absolutely amazing yesterday is no longer even so much as great today. I can instantly connect to a remote server from my phone, type some text, and generate a pretty good poem about my cat and all of that is already "meh".
- denton-scratch 2y ago> generate a pretty good poem about my cat I do not consider a text generator to be the pinnacle of "great software", regardless of how well the code was written. I don't think "meh" is the wrong word.
- wvenable 2y agoExactly my point! A statistical text generator trained a vast majority of the available content on the Internet and is able to understand natural language commands to generate content on any available subject is bloody amazing. Literally five minutes after this absolutely crazy-ass technology was released to the world, it's already the baseline.