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Re: Attached is a "conversation" I had with AI trying to get FFMPEG to concatenate two videos correctly

From EllisMorgan <ellis@ellis.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.freeware, rec.photo.digital, comp.lang.apl
Subject Re: Attached is a "conversation" I had with AI trying to get FFMPEG to concatenate two videos correctly
Date 2025-02-18 07:53 +0000
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On 17/02/2025 01:11, Paul wrote:
> On Sun, 2/16/2025 5:13 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:31:27 -0500
>> Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> []
>>>
>>> They need a "breakthrough". As in, starting over again.
>>> I don't see, how adding cubic miles more computing equipment,
>>> is going to help.
>>>
>> It's a bit like Fusion; they're on the verge of something Big, just Spend
>> More Money.
> 
> They're fixated on gold mining, when the mule and the
> shovel haven't been perfected yet.
> 
> When I was in high school, the bright kid in my class
> did a port of ELIZA, from Fortran to APL. We ran that
> on the terminal, and laughed at the corny output,
> provided by a series of if-then-else type constructs.
> 
> Well, what we have today, is ELIZA on steroids. Of course
> it's miles better than ELIZA. but on the other hand, it's
> not a genius. And every time you use it, it loses a couple
> "IQ points" in your general opinion of the thing. To the
> point, it's damn close to useless. Just like ELIZA :-)
> 
> ELIZA was glaringly bad. But, because it was procedural,
> we could all appreciate both the effort that had
> gone into creating it, and we could see what it would
> take to make it "more clever". Whereas the LLM AI,
> offers not a clue as to what would fix it. Every
> usage reveals a new problem. One of my fun answers, was
> when the AI tells me to "get a hex editor and figure
> it out for myself". I would pay money for this
> kind of rancid wisdom.
> 
>     Paul
> 

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Re: Attached is a "conversation" I had with AI trying to get FFMPEG to concatenate two videos correctly EllisMorgan <ellis@ellis.invalid> - 2025-02-18 07:53 +0000
  Re: Attached is a "conversation" I had with AI trying to get FFMPEG to concatenate two videos correctly Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-18 07:30 -0500

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