Looks like it was running on good ol' GPT-4o which is probably not great for this sort of thing. I'll have to give it another try using the other models, I didn't even think to run them through o3 or 4.1.
EDIT: Yup, WAY better on 4.1. It actually did what it was supposed to, with no hallucinations.
That's great to hear! 4o is SO good at creative writing, quick low-stakes questions, or creative brainstorming. Anything mission critical though needs to be kept far away from it.
What's great is OpenAI just made o3 way more efficient, so even us lowly plus users get about 100/week. I'm pretty confident if you started up your own business, o3 could handle many of the tricky, pitfall-rich "getting started" tasks for you (marketing plans, business roadmaps, competitor research, etc.).
Granted, bolting this stuff into existing infrastructure is not always a good time. But starting something from scratch? Lordy, what a different story in many cases.
As for the chess thing, it's mostly all fun and games. I worry a lot though that people are given a false comfort when they should be re-evaluating what they do. Not total freak out bash-each-other-in-the-skulls-and-dig-a-bunker, but maybe ask the question "what if my job as a call center support agent didn't exist in 2 years?"
So I worry that stories about hilarious AI failures, while entertaining, might be doing many of us a concerning disservice.
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but maybe ask the question "what if my job as a call center support agent didn't exist in 2 years?"
Ya, that's a question I hope policy experts and governments are grappling with, because it is absolutely going to eliminate a lot of low level jobs people who are already struggling need.
I know it's impossible because of our global economy, but a tax on AI agents that save companies millions of dollars would be reasonable, otherwise they just get a massive efficiency boost and society(taxpayers) deal with the fallout.
The reality is many people just can't do jobs that require intelligence over a certain point. You can't just say train and educate. Some people are just dumb.
I am not sure how exactly Apple is doing it, but I have tons of photos on my phone and I was able to search for one really easily instead of trying to scroll through thumbnails or try to narrow down where the photo was.
I meant if AI might start producing a bunch of digital trash at unprecedented levels which further amplifies issues with data storage/transmission/energy usage.
The quoted Bluesky post is essentially making the point of using the right tool for the job, and while LLM's can be good at a lot of things, it's not good at all things. Which is probably a good message for clueless execs looknig at deploying these tools because they hear they can do everything.
The main selling point of LLM "AI" kind of is their ability to do "anything". Their convenience comes primarily from it being a multitool so you don't have to learn or create a million separate tools, let alone know what other tools are out there.
Ya, that's a question I hope policy experts and governments are grappling with, because it is absolutely going to eliminate a lot of low level jobs people who are already struggling need.
I know it's impossible because of our global economy, but a tax on AI agents that save companies millions of dollars would be reasonable, otherwise they just get a massive efficiency boost and society(taxpayers) deal with the fallout.
The reality is many people just can't do jobs that require intelligence over a certain point. You can't just say train and educate. Some people are just dumb.
I'm sure they're grappling with it and coming up with sweet F all. In fairness to them, I don't know that there is an elegant answer. Your tax idea is probably one of the better ones I've seen, but like you say, impossible because companies will just use ChinaBot3000 and get around it that way.
I think everybody has worked with someone who can barely tie their own shoes. I worry about those types a lot. I'm a pretty optimistic guy most of the time, but I don't see how things work out for those people without crazy levels of government intervention.
I'm sure they're grappling with it and coming up with sweet F all. In fairness to them, I don't know that there is an elegant answer. Your tax idea is probably one of the better ones I've seen, but like you say, impossible because companies will just use ChinaBot3000 and get around it that way.
I think everybody has worked with someone who can barely tie their own shoes. I worry about those types a lot. I'm a pretty optimistic guy most of the time, but I don't see how things work out for those people without crazy levels of government intervention.
I'm sure we've all also seen these people get raises, promotions, bonuses and opportunities in front of others as well. Thinking AI is just going to replace the low performers of the workforce is naive in my opinion. Once AI can complete a task it won't do it at the level of a low performer. 6 months ago everyone was laughing at AI images and the hands it was making - no one would pay for those. Fast forward to today and I don't think you can look at the image generation and say "watch out low performing graphic designers".
It's the same attitude everyone has when they hear layoffs are coming. They're too important and too irreplaceable to be laid off, until they're not.
I'm sure we've all also seen these people get raises, promotions, bonuses and opportunities in front of others as well. Thinking AI is just going to replace the low performers of the workforce is naive in my opinion. Once AI can complete a task it won't do it at the level of a low performer. 6 months ago everyone was laughing at AI images and the hands it was making - no one would pay for those. Fast forward to today and I don't think you can look at the image generation and say "watch out low performing graphic designers".
It's the same attitude everyone has when they hear layoffs are coming. They're too important and too irreplaceable to be laid off, until they're not.
Completely agree. I didn't mean to say only the lower performers stand to get flattened here. What I meant to say is those people will have a harder time pivoting. Perhaps there won't be anything to pivot to, and everybody gets individually screwed, but there's a reasonable chance (that for a while at least) mid-skilled people who can learn quick and remain fluid stand to be far more ok.
We're starting to see some interesting things with agents and coding, which is expected as coding has always been one of the first arenas of AI. It stands to reason over the next year we'll see those agent capabilities translate to things like starting a small business.
For mid-tier people, that could be amazing. For those who struggle mightily though, even the agents probably won't be enough to help them.
There's been some pretty crazy advances in recent weeks in the AI video generation world.
Midjourney has just released their version of video today, and honestly, I am quite impressed considering it's available as part of their regular offering and the motion and prompt adherence is better than their image prompt adherence. I often use Midjourney images for my AI videos to begin with (sent to Kling for example) to have it built it. It has extend option built in. They were trailing hard recently after the release of Sora for images, and v7 was a rushed launch. If looking for an all in one image / video generator with good quality it's a great option. So far, it may replace Kling for me for some video when I want to do quick videos without spending credits. I used it for my latest TikTok video.
Google Veo 3 is also insanely good and commercial level quality with audio included. Main issue is pricing and mostly restricted to Google Gemini Ultra subscription.
Hailuoai Minimax also released 2.0 yesterday. Their new subscription tiers has caused a lot of controversy, as their unlimited plan is no longer (and more expensive as well). It's very good especially compared to 1, but honestly Minimax has fallen behind a bit even with this new version.
A new contender also showed up mysteriously on the AI video battle arena, and it turns out it is Bytedance Seeddance 1.0. It's not out officially to the public yet but it's above even Veo 3 in terms of preferred output.
I'm sure we've all also seen these people get raises, promotions, bonuses and opportunities in front of others as well. Thinking AI is just going to replace the low performers of the workforce is naive in my opinion. Once AI can complete a task it won't do it at the level of a low performer. 6 months ago everyone was laughing at AI images and the hands it was making - no one would pay for those. Fast forward to today and I don't think you can look at the image generation and say "watch out low performing graphic designers".
It's the same attitude everyone has when they hear layoffs are coming. They're too important and too irreplaceable to be laid off, until they're not.
IMO there's two sides of the coin. I think AI is the next level power tool of this generation. Like forcing trades to transition towards standardizing use power tools vs hand tools once upon a time. You'll lose a bunch of roles, but not as many as thought when people just demand more at higher levels of quality/trim in the same period of time.
The other is that AI can IMO potentially become like dealing with an unfocused employee with ADHD.
"AI, how would I approach a marketing draft for this idea?"
"I've subscribed to these online tools for contention creation, created a website and there are current live mock ups of what you requested in color, cartoon and sepia."
"What? I just wanted to rough out an idea for an email."
"Emails are so 16.47 weeks ago."
It makes me think about Tom Cruise's character in Minority Report, ripped out of his mind on drugs, watching videos of his lost son. He's basically watching a 3D video in an Apple Headset minus the headset... this is something else entirely.
Regardless of how we feel about this sort of thing right now, who among us would be able to avoid doing this when faced with a massive loss in our life? And extrapolating out, how many years are we away from being able to VR our way into this scene and have a conversation with the person? Almost all the pieces are in place to do that right now, they just aren't connected.
The future of grief looks choppy and complicated.
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We're starting to see some interesting things with agents and coding, which is expected as coding has always been one of the first arenas of AI. It stands to reason over the next year we'll see those agent capabilities translate to things like starting a small business.
Low performers are often also representative of new grads, they get smaller pieces of work to continue to develop their skills, with oversight by more senior people. If you replace these people with AI, you run the risk of wiping out an entire generation of developers who will, over time, become more senior developers capable of providing the kind of oversight required to evaluate the work of AI coders.
Remember what happened to manufacturing capacity when North American's out-sourced so much of their manufacturing?
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Listened to a short story on the weekend similar to that AI video thing.. mother purchased an AI of her dead son trained on the son's interactions with social media among other things. Pay more and you get deeper data for a more accurate representation. She got it partly to ask it why he killed himself.
The virtual son didn't interact with his sister much because their interaction was mostly in person, and the virtual son didn't know why he killed himself either.
Pretty creepy.
Also not sure what it says about us that something so deeply meaningful is so easily reproduced by some complex maths.
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Low performers are often also representative of new grads, they get smaller pieces of work to continue to develop their skills, with oversight by more senior people. If you replace these people with AI, you run the risk of wiping out an entire generation of developers who will, over time, become more senior developers capable of providing the kind of oversight required to evaluate the work of AI coders.
Remember what happened to manufacturing capacity when North American's out-sourced so much of their manufacturing?
I have a friend in law that has more or less the same concerns. If AI improves to the point it can beat out a new lawyer, demand for new lawyers will drop off a cliff and nobody will become old lawyers.
Hopefully it's an obvious enough problem that we don't let it get to that, but then humanity gets in the way. Suddenly it's a prisoner's dilemma whereby it's the right decision to hire new human lawyers for the greater good... but if you don't, you can be the firm that saves a ton of money.
Google just released the highly anticipated Gemini CLI platform, which will integrate Gemini Pro directly into your terminal. What is even more amazing is it's offering a crazy 1000 requests a day to Gemini Pro 2.5 for free.
To use Gemini CLI free-of-charge, simply login with a personal Google account to get a free Gemini Code Assist license. That free license gets you access to Gemini 2.5 Pro and its massive 1 million token context window. To ensure you rarely, if ever, hit a limit during this preview, we offer the industry’s largest allowance: 60 model requests per minute and 1,000 requests per day at no charge.
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Update, my TikTok account is about to hit 100K followers within about 1-2 weeks, from zero followers back on Jan 1. 64 million views as of today to give an idea of how viral my account has become. Still consistently on top of search for mainstream queries.
I've since completed a number of paid collabs including with some of the recognized names in the AI video generation world with unlimited access to video generation at a couple so far.
I was waiting to update when I hit the milestone, but today I received an official paid collab invitation from one of the biggest names in video editing software to promote a new AI video integration tool with a big name AI video generator. 100+ million download app and one I regularly use for non-AI video work and pay for. Pretty excited on this new one as these videos just snowball the viral effect.
Tally right now from direct AI / AI derivative work since I started is at the 7K USD mark but this 2nd stream is climbing fast.
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Knowing that you're one of the people responsible for filling what little social media I do use with AI-generated slop kinda makes me want to hoof you in the groin.
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Ya, good for you for profiting if you can. I'd be interested to see exactly what is generating those kinds of views, because I have less than zero interest in watching more than 3 seconds of any AI content these days. If you have a good product I have to imagine it's harder and harder to stay above the slop. John Oliver just did a piece on it this week.
Whoever is taking shorts from actual popular creators and putting some kind of other content beside it and making a new short is raking in the $ if my feed has been any indicator lately.
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