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We test Google Veo: impressive demo, unusable results (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 12 hours ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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this took me all day, but it's a banger if i do say so myself - watch the video first

video version

podcast probably tomorrow

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The whole history of “artificial intelligence” since 1955 is making impressive demos that you can’t use for real work. Then they cut your funding off and it’s AI Winter again.

I've found myself wondering if I was being overly harsh in calling artificial intelligence a pseudoscience. Clearly, I was not.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 5 points 3 hours ago

AI is the product, not the science.

Having said that:

Alignment research: pseudoscience
AGI timelines: pseudoscience
Prompt engineering: pseudoscience
Problem solving benchmarks: almost certainly pseudoscience
Hyperscaling: borderline, one could be generous and call it a failed experiment
Neural network training and design fundamentals: that's applied maths meets trial and error, no pseudo about it

Any thing interesting I'm forgetting?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

even McCarthy was open that it was a marketing term

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Small domino: being passive aggressive at a guy named Norbert

Big domino: resurgent fascism and widespread economic collapse in the 21st century