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xenobeb commented on Where's the AI Design Renaissance? learnui.design/blog/where... · Posted by u/alexpogosyan

xenobeb · 2 months ago

AI design isn't even good from what I have tried.

The dot com bubble was a financial bubble.

We are in something more like an AI mass delusion.

xenobeb commented on Sora 2 openai.com/index/sora-2/... · Posted by u/skilled

jsheard · 3 months ago

Sora 1 was also lauded as being incredibly good at physics based on the early cherry-picked examples. The phrase "world simulator" was thrown around a lot. That didn't last long once people finally got their hands on it though.

xenobeb · 3 months ago

It was so much more hyped than that. They made it sound like Hollywood was in big trouble. It is going to have the same problems as Midjourney. You just don't have that much control of the scene. The process is to make thousands of random variations and cherry pick the good stuff because you can't do anything else.

xenobeb commented on Sora 2 openai.com/index/sora-2/... · Posted by u/skilled

xenobeb · 3 months ago

You obviously never actually used Sora.

These are hand selected from thousands of prompts. The person who doesn't use these tools thinks that you prompt the video like you are Scorsese directing a film. That is exactly what AI video is not.

More like you write a prompt and then try try try to get something that vaguely does what you wanted it to do. Most of the time though it doesn't even get close. The best video is usually stuff you didn't even intend. It is great for demo reals but that is about it.

They already made such a big deal about Sora 1 for months before it came out then what have you seen from it after it actually released? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Honestly, Midjourney blows away what I seen in this video as far as being pretty but Midjourney video is the same problem. Your imagination is filling in all these AI video features that don't exist.

xenobeb commented on Sora 2 openai.com/index/sora-2/... · Posted by u/skilled

xenobeb · 3 months ago

No, the average person just doesn't have a creative bone in their body. They will be impressed when they get Super Hero movie #1899 but this time by AI , woo hoo!

Now that will be progress!

xenobeb commented on Sora 2 openai.com/index/sora-2/... · Posted by u/skilled

SeanAnderson · 3 months ago

It's not an exaggeration to me? I literally stopped the video and went back to the start and re-read. You're more than welcome to speak about your opinions and experiences, but I'm speaking about mine.

I'm over here thinking, "It felt like just yesterday I was laughing at trippy, incoherent videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti."

I love the progress we're making. I love the competition between big companies trying to make the most appealing product demos. I love not knowing what the tech world is going to look like in six months. I love not thinking, "Man. The Internet was a cool invention to have grown up in, but now all tech is mundane and extractive." Every time I see AI progress I'm filled with childlike wonder that I thought was gone for good.

I don't know if this represent SOTA for video generation. I don't care. In that moment I found it impressive and was commenting specifically on the joy I experienced watching the video. I find it frustrating to have that joy met with such negativity.

xenobeb · 3 months ago

You obviously have never actually tried to make anything in AI video. It is a parlor trick.Maybe this is a big advance but the current state of AI video is a joke. It is only impressive if you don't actually make anything. It is impressive in a marketing release that is quickly forgot about.

Will Smith eating spaghetti is the dumbest most uncreative thing. You are impressed by it because it is a meme. It is stupid.

xenobeb commented on Sora 2 openai.com/index/sora-2/... · Posted by u/skilled

tootie · 3 months ago

The fact that this is their demo to the world and it's full of errors implies that average users will only get worse results.

xenobeb · 3 months ago

It is not even just the errors. These video models are really impressive as long as you don't actually have something in your head you want to make. Then the laughable limitations are on full display.

I will believe it when I see because Sora 1 is probably the most disappointing technology given what I thought it was going to be that I can even think of. I waited forever for it and then barely used it because it sucks.

xenobeb commented on Claude Sonnet 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

senordevnyc · 3 months ago

HN is such a negative and cynical place these days that it's just not worth it. I just don't have the patience to hear yet another anti-AI rant, or have someone who is ideologically opposed to AI nitpick its output. Like you, I've found AI to be a huge help for my work, and I'm happy to keep outcompeting the people who are too stubborn to approach it with an open mind.

xenobeb · 3 months ago

To me, it really depends if the post is a well reasoned criticism with something unique to add to the conversation or the standard, completely pointless, anti-AI rant that I have already read a 1000 times.

xenobeb commented on Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27... · Posted by u/lairv

slaucon · 3 months ago

I feel like there should be some take away from the fact that we have to come up with new and interesting metrics like “Length of a Task That Can Be Automated” in order to point out that exponential growth is still happening. Fwiw, it does seem like a good metric, but it also feels like you can often find some metric that’s improving exponentially even when the base function is leveling out.

xenobeb · 3 months ago

From Nassim Taleb

"Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler."

Seems like that is exactly what we are doing.

xenobeb commented on Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27... · Posted by u/lairv

senordevnyc · 3 months ago

How much better is AI-assisted coding than it was in September 2023?

xenobeb · 3 months ago

This all depends on how you define "better".

I am an amateur programmer and tried to port a python 2.7 library to python 3 with GPT5 a few weeks ago.

After a few tries, I realized both myself and the model missed that a large part of the library is based on another library that was never ported to 3 either.

That doesn't stop GPT5 from trying to write the code as best it can with a library that doesn't exist for python 3.

That is the part we have made absolutely no progress on.

Of course, it can do a much better react crud app than in Sept 2023.

In one sense, LLMs are so amazing and impressive and quite fugazi in another sense.

xenobeb commented on Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/andsoitis

baxtr · 3 months ago

> MGX, chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will take 15% stake, with social media firm valued at $14bn

So they value the most attention owing social media at a mere $14b? As reference: Meta has a total market cap of around $1.8 T.

xenobeb · 3 months ago

It is so outrageous to value Tiktok USA at $14 billion.

Forget Meta's market cap, does anyone think Zuckerberg wouldn't have paid 20 billion for Tiktok USA ?

Just so corrupt and to even call it a sweetheart deal is outrageous.

I thought it should just be banned in the US. The idea we are basically strong arming a whole nation and stealing a company at a bullshit valuation is completely insane.