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| 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 |
| Organization | home |
| Message-ID | <vp1ea2$1jt18$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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Unusual to find a reference to APL, however dated, in another newsgroup ... 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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