Top
Best
New

Posted by rocauc 14 hours ago

Proof of Corn(proofofcorn.com)
349 points | 254 commentspage 8
lerp-io 11 hours ago|
so cringe
moffkalast 14 hours ago||
> AI doesn't need to drive a tractor. It needs to orchestrate the systems and people who do.

If people are involved then it's not an autonomous system. You could replace the orchestrator with the average logic defined expert system. Like come on, farming AGVs have come a long way, at least do it properly.

gritspants 14 hours ago||
Your job is to grow corn.

Claude: Oh. My. God.

jackmarshl0w 12 hours ago||
I find it intresting if the AI can Produce real Corn on other planet. If this work, i think when AI is getting resource of other planet soil, then it going to be a great help for Humanity
Night_Thastus 14 hours ago|
It's...interesting but I feel like people keep forgetting that LLMs like Claude don't really...think(?). Or learn. Or know what 'corn' or a 'tractor' is. They don't really have any memory of past experiences or a working memory of some current state.

They're (very impressive) next word predictors. If you ask it 'is it time to order more seeds?' and the internet is full of someone answering 'no' - that's the answer it will provide. It can't actually understand how many there currently are, the season, how much land, etc, and do the math itself to determine whether it's actually needed or not.

You can babysit it and engineer the prompts to be as leading as possible to the answer you want it to give - but that's about it.

jablongo 14 hours ago|
I think you could have credibly said this for a while during 2024 and earlier, but there is a lot of research that indicates LLMs are more than stochastic parrots, as some researchers claimed earlier on. Souped up versions of LLMs have performed at the gold medal level in the IMO, which should give you pause in dismissing them. "It can't actually understand how many there currently are, the season, how much land, etc, and do the math itself to determine whether it's actually needed or not" --- modern agents actually can do this.
Night_Thastus 13 hours ago||
They are 100% stochastic parrots.

The worlds most impressive stochastic parrot, resulting from billions of dollars of research by some of the world's most advanced mathematicians and computer scientists.

And capable of some very impressive things. But pretending their limitations don't exist doesn't serve anyone.