Posted by sethbannon 22 hours ago
https://flipbook.page/n/12267bbfdeb043c3aa477337950b2b71
- M2 is labeled as GPU
- GPU is labeled as M.2 and RAM?
- RAM is labeled as GPU
- Random plant inside the case?
- This is also not a typical layout for a SFF PC
Great demo, interesting transitions and UI, but the model / generated information is definitely not correct.
For this to really be practical you'd need a way to run networks many times faster and more efficiently than today's GPUs. This is too slow to work even with cloud GPUs powering it.
Maybe someday.
This is built from the collective works of all humans throughout history who have strived to make infographics, illustrations, and communicate knowledge - with 0 actual credit or reference to them (or financial compensation, if they’re still alive).
Instead, who is making money from this? Google, as providers of the model - and maybe the founders of this product, if they ever choose to monetize it somehow.
I’m not even going to get into how the results it produces have just enough “insight” to appear valid but the moment you inspect it up close, it’s completely wrong in most details, and replete with ornamentation that doesn’t actually add to meaning - a Potemkin village of knowledge - because the common answer to this criticism around here is “just wait 6 months bro the models will definitely solve all those problems”.
(some of the things I’ve tried for reference)
https://flipbook.page/n/56fed5ac8e164467b1d6151a6d5068ae
https://flipbook.page/n/deeb4d846d1a44738aa70d8973fc5765
https://flipbook.page/n/335fb5d4c4d8428d82e8a43fc4f7a4e8
We are not better off investing billions of dollars in computers doing this over paying humans to write and illustrate and make cultural artefacts. We are not better off putting this in the hands of kids rather than meaningfully designed resources & curriculum designed by humans.
What are we even doing.
That’s the biggest problem with the current wave of AI tooling - it’s so easy to make a cool demo all while completely missing the point of what actually is good for human flourishing.
For example, here I asked for a mechanism of converting the circular motion to wing flapping, and it has no idea what to do at all.
https://flipbook.page/n/21f96ba33aa94852bc1f567bc5cd23bf
The core problem with using AI to learn is that if you don't know about the specific area (which you don't, that's why you are learning it), it can (and absolutely will) fake knowledge without you ever noticing it, and be utterly wrong, disseminating false info, and teaching you (or your kids) wrong world models.
You can do this with any agentic coding model now... just ask OpenAI codex : generate me an image given this query: "the query" and you will get the same kind of outputs.