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by adamc 2y ago
If it becomes easy to make "Deadpool & Wolverine", it will no longer be where the money is. Everything that becomes a commodity attracts competition and ceases to be special. (You can see some of that in super-hero movies, whi
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by adamc 2y ago
This is the best answer I've seen, but I think what was demonstrated is miles away from this. A lot would need to be able to be specified (and honored) from the prompts, far more than any examples have demonstrated. I'm not agains
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by adamc 2y ago
They are art compared to getting uncontrolled choices. Who decides what the actors look like? How they move? What emotions their faces are to convey? How the blocking works for a scene? What the color scheme is for the movie? How each shot
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't have anything against stitching together clips to tell your story, but I'm unconvinced that these demonstrate anything like that. As I said in another comment, it seems like you'd need to write a screenplay PLUS all t
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by adamc 2y ago
Every new novel of any merit shows that there is. And the world keeps changing. The experience of being human keeps changing. Nothing AI has yet done has demonstrated anything at the level of art or mastery. I guess I'm unconvinced tha
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by adamc 2y ago
Even formulaic movies from hollywood have directors and actors doing a million things the AI will do randomly unless you tell it otherwise.
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by adamc 2y ago
I'm really not seeing how that would happen from these examples. It would seem like achieving an adequate, directorial level of control would require writing a novel -- or, anyway, more than a conventional screenplay -- to get the AI t
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by adamc 2y ago
If the error rates are high, there is no reliable signal that these areas are different, so how the hell can looking at their "new variables" help?
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by adamc 2y ago
I wouldn't be. How is any of this going to lead to meaningful art? I don't think you get "The Green Mile" from something like this.
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by adamc 2y ago
I'm not. The likelihood that such movies (for example) would have anything significant to say about being human seems very low. If one watches movies, reads books, etc. just to pass the time, maybe this would be some kind of boon. But
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by adamc 2y ago
It leads to other problems. A lot of orgs have specifically moved away from specialist teams towards teams united by the business mission.
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by adamc 2y ago
Where I work we still use Software AG's Natural for mainframe programming. It's not really a bad language for what it is (very much focused on database programming). The main limitation is that they never created or provided great
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by adamc 2y ago
Not to mention someone would need to evaluate and test the proposed solution... which with today's LLMs I would not bet heavily on its correctness. This is some years ago, but a friend of mine, trained in a 4GL that was still a procedu
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by adamc 2y ago
I wouldn't say it makes you "soft", but it makes you inexperienced at it, and people often freeze when they don't know how to do something. Drive around the country and you'll notice that sometimes Google maps doesn
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by adamc 2y ago
Convenient streaming services do not pay musicians a living wage for their work. It's basically still ripping them off.
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by adamc 2y ago
4GL was really more a marketing slogan than a true generation. The idea was something like "with third generation tools, you have to drive the car, making every turn yourself, with 4th Gen., you say "Go to the Ritz!". It wasn
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by adamc 2y ago
Technologies die very slowly once things of economic value depend on them. COBOL probably isn't used from new projects very often, but the economics of ditching it aren't very good either. It already works. Rewriting things that w
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by adamc 2y ago
No, I was referring to this: https://paulgraham.com/vanlfsp.html
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by adamc 2y ago
I think the essay had less to do with syntax than appreciating what makes lisp special. But sure. I love Lisp's ultra-simple syntax. And it makes macros work, which is indeed a superpower.
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by adamc 2y ago
Math is usually assessed via quizzes and tests where you have to show your work, which makes it easier for the teacher to tell if you are getting it. It's a lot harder to assess whether a student has read a novel -- you basically have
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't think chatgpt created the problem, although it may contribute to it. Here's a hypothesis: The problem is that thinking analytically, rigorously, is hard work. People do not often seem to come to it by accident. It's
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by adamc 2y ago
I'm old. I like the camera. It gives a better view for many things.
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by adamc 2y ago
Of course it's convenient. But I learned to drive before we had it, and learned to find my way around without it. Maps helped, but you can do a lot with logic and by understanding direction.
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by adamc 2y ago
Find your way around an unfamiliar city or area without google maps or similar.
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by adamc 2y ago
Most teachers have large classes. Their ability to monitor each kid and prevent them from using chatgpt or similar tools may be limited. I come from a family with many teachers. The harsh reality is that teachers can provide a conducive env
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by adamc 2y ago
I read this and it struck a chord. A decade or more ago, a friend of mine teaching English in a major state university told me that he was getting lots of students who couldn't seem to read a novel. They could read the words on the pag
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by adamc 2y ago
You can already see it in people who cannot navigate their automobile without google maps or some equivalent.
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by adamc 2y ago
I can relate. I read Graham's book on Common Lisp more than 20 years ago and was entranced. But opportunities to use it in the day job are few and far between, and I would have qualms about recommending it, in most contexts. For a lot
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by adamc 2y ago
OK, then I'm pretty sure it won't happen. I don't want to have a personal assistant replace an OS. I don't even want to talk to Alexa. And I'm not alone...
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by adamc 2y ago
When people go shopping for a PC, they don't buy a cell phone. Both can connect to the internet, but they're different products.

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