We test Google Veo: impressive demo, unusable results
We test Google Veo: impressive demo, unusable results
Over on YouTube, we run Google’s Veo 3 video generator through its paces. So when you’ve read this, go and watch the worked examples. [YouTube] Aron Peterson is a media production professional. He’…
this took me all day, but it's a banger if i do say so myself - watch the video first
podcast probably tomorrow
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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.
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
- I'm probably forgetting stuff
even McCarthy was open that it was a marketing term
Small domino: being passive aggressive at a guy named Norbert
Big domino: resurgent fascism and widespread economic collapse in the 21st century