The Internet doesn't make people dumber any more than video games, rock music, picaresque novels, the printing press, or writing did. These kinds of arguments come around with every new technology and have always been fatuous.

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

All of them were true to some extent, except probably the printing press.

"Show HN: I used [name of LLM tool] to make a leetcode study webapp" seems like a reasonable title here.

"Show HN: I asked [name of LLM tool] to generate the most generic Show HW entry"

Isn't that what (Microsoft, not Github) Copilot was supposed to be?

Yeah but I have tried it and its capabilty is not par with what I would want it to do.

Looks like very typical Claude Design output to me, though I could be wrong.

For what it's worth I don't have anything against the design. It's kind of like seeing Bootstrap websites everywhere when that was at its peak.

P.S. The hamburger menu icon overlaps with the site icon when the menu is open.

The hamburger issue should be fixed now

It doesn't read as AI generated text to me. Pangram also suggests it's human-written, for what it's worth. That's not to say that it's correct, just human-written. If the model used in the HF hack did indeed have all of the safeguards manually removed, that would change my perception of the situation, at least.

AI detectors do not work. There are passages in this that have some odd structures that don't feel human to me. I'm sure a human edited this and refined it with some prompting, it's not just rough output from an AI. But a lot of the text feels like it was edited via prompting rather than actual editing or writing.

That's assuming that human-level AI is a possibility with current approaches.

No need even for "human-level" per se. It just has to be useful enough that it upends the current economic order, which it's already well on the way into doing.

No, it's assuming there's a non-trivial chance that they will.

I'd assume we want at least human-level intelligence, but better than human-level _decision making_. ;)

Neat! Looks like an updated version of OCR Arena[0], which doesn't seem to have kept up with new models for a bit.

Would be nice to see the inclusion of Mistral OCR 4, Baidu's Unlimited-OCR, and OlmOCR2.

[0]OCR Arena: https://www.ocrarena.ai/

thank you for the model suggestions!

There are lots of prior examples of automating intellectual work, though -- calculators (rather than doing the math yourself), Google search (rather than looking through library catalogues yourself), Word processors/typewriters (rather than writing by hand), heck, even writing (rather than simply remembering things), which Plato railed against.

True, I guess at every step it’s affecting a growingly larger part of the intellectual population. I remember Umberto Eco only half-jokingly ranting in the early 2000 against the speed and ease with which suddenly everyone could match his rare bibliophile abilities and his portentous memory. I guess we’re all getting to feel the same way now, with the difference that the industrial/financial complex built on this new revolution feels like the most disenfranchising ever so far.

AI is not an "oracle" no matter how much Altman and Amodei claim it is.

I mean, surely this depends on what games you want to play. If you're playing mostly indies and retro games, an older desktop will be fine. If you want to play new AAA releases, probably much less so.

You don't have to go retro, just 5 to 10y old is fine.

I too built a budget gaming machine last year with a ryzen whatever it is cpu, 16GB of DDR4 and a radeon rx470 or 489 with 8GB of ram. I ignore news about new games and only buy games that are on sale and less than 20€ and everything works fine. These are AAA but not newly released ones. For example I recently started playing Skyrim for example.

You don't miss what you haven't tried.

Yeah that's pretty much what I play. Newer titles haven't interested me much lately except for a few. THis machine handles Diablo 4, Pragmata, all the elder scrolls titles, cities skylines, satisfactory, etc. just fine. Even managed to get AC:Shadows to run decently using the steam deck preset.

I hadn't considered Intel Arc though, the other comment's recommendation might be a good upgrade path for me without dropping $1k on a new GPU.