Hacker News with Generative AI: Generative AI

The most underreported story in AI is that scaling has failed to produce AGI (fortune.com)
The most underreported and important story in AI right now is that pure scaling has failed to produce AGI

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI

35 points by unclebucknasty 42 minutes ago | 38 comments

Launch HN: Confident AI (YC W25) – Open-source evaluation framework for LLM apps (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN - we're Jeffrey and Kritin, and we're building Confident AI (https://confident-ai.com). This is the cloud platform for DeepEval (https://github.com/confident-ai/deepeval), our open-source package that helps engineers evaluate and unit-test LLM applications. Think Pytest for LLMs.

Generative AI, Open Source, Evaluation Frameworks, Testing

43 points by jeffreyip 3 hours ago | 3 comments

XentGame: Help Minimize LLM Surprise (xentlabs.ai)
Your goal is to write a prefix that most helps an LLM predict the given texts. The more your prefix helps the LLM predict the texts, the higher your score.

Generative AI, AI Safety

14 points by upperhalfplane 4 hours ago | 5 comments

Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson (thealgorithmicbridge.com)
For once, it seems Elon Musk wasn’t exaggerating when he called Grok 3 the “smartest AI on Earth.” Grok 3 is a massive leap forward compared to Grok 2. (You can watch the full presentation here.)

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Elon Musk

117 points by kiyanwang 12 hours ago | 176 comments

Mistral's Le Chat tops 1M downloads in just 14 days (techcrunch.com)
A couple of weeks after the initial release of Mistral’s AI assistant, Le Chat, the company told Le Parisien that it has reached one million downloads.

Generative AI, AI Assistants, Business, France

61 points by oliverchan2024 14 hours ago | 22 comments

Xbox pushes ahead with new generative AI (wired.com)
Microsoft is wading deeper into generative artificial intelligence for gaming with Muse, a new AI model announced today.

Generative AI, Gaming, Microsoft, Xbox

26 points by 01-_- 14 hours ago | 31 comments

Large Language Diffusion Models (ml-gsai.github.io)
TL;DR: We introduce LLaDA, a diffusion model with an unprecedented 8B scale, trained entirely from scratch, rivaling LLaMA3 8B in performance.

Diffusion Models, Generative AI

42 points by SerCe 17 hours ago | 12 comments

AI Models Like GPT-4o Change Without Warning. Here's What You Can Do About It (libretto.ai)
As we move into a world where more and more of our software depends on large language models like GPT and Claude, we are increasingly hearing about the problem of “model drift”. Companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are constantly updating their deployed models in a ton of different ways. Most of the time, these updates don’t make much of a difference, but once in a while, they can absolutely torpedo one of your prompts.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Programming

13 points by aickin 23 hours ago | 5 comments

GPT4 level intelligence fell 1000x in 18 months (twitter.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, AI Progress

11 points by stevekrouse 1 day ago | 14 comments

Can I ethically use LLMs? (ntietz.com)
The title is not a rhetorical question, and I'm not going to bury an answer. I don't have an answer. This post is my exploration of the question, and why I think it is a question1.

Ethics, Generative AI

60 points by ulrischa 1 day ago | 107 comments

Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation (microsoft.com)
Today, the journal Nature (opens in new tab) is publishing our latest research, which introduces the first World and Human Action Model (WHAM). The WHAM, which we’ve named “Muse,” is a generative AI model of a video game that can generate game visuals, controller actions, or both.

Generative AI, Video Games, Artificial Intelligence, Research

8 points by nwjsmith 1 day ago | 0 comments

Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist (research.google)
We introduce AI co-scientist, a multi-agent AI system built with Gemini 2.0 as a virtual scientific collaborator to help scientists generate novel hypotheses and research proposals, and to accelerate the clock speed of scientific and biomedical discoveries.

Generative AI, Science, Artificial Intelligence, Research

354 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 189 comments

Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today" (twitter.com)

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Twitter, Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI

138 points by htk 2 days ago | 171 comments

How to create LLM-driven tiny gnome robots? (ycombinator.com)
You know, like in the movie "The Borrowers". Since we have human-sized bipedals now, it shouldn't be impossible to create miniture robots that would act like living beings, right?

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Science Fiction

12 points by r33b33 2 days ago | 2 comments

The Generative AI Con (wheresyoured.at)
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st century — a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman built to sell into an economy run by people that have no concept of labor other than their desperation to exploit or replace it.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Technology, Ethics

359 points by nimbleplum40 3 days ago | 472 comments

The Generative AI Con (wheresyoured.at)
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st century — a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman built to sell into an economy run by people that have no concept of labor other than their desperation to exploit or replace it.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Technology, Ethics

8 points by elorant 3 days ago | 0 comments

Reddit mods are fighting to keep AI slop off subreddits. They could use help (arstechnica.com)
Mods ask Reddit for tools as generative AI gets more popular and inconspicuous.

Reddit, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Moderation, Content Management

10 points by rntn 3 days ago | 1 comments

ZeroBench: An Impossible* Visual Benchmark for Contemporary Multimodal Models (zerobench.github.io)
Contemporary LMMs often exhibit remarkable performance on existing visual benchmarks, yet closer inspection reveals persistent shortcomings in their ability to interpret and reason about visual content. Many existing benchmarks tend to become saturated, losing their value as effective measures of the true visual understanding capabilities of frontier models.

Generative AI, Visual Recognition, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

7 points by EliBullockPapa 3 days ago | 3 comments

Step-Video-T2V: The Practice, Challenges, and Future of Video Foundation Model (arxiv.org)
We present Step-Video-T2V, a state-of-the-art text-to-video pre-trained model with 30B parameters and the ability to generate videos up to 204 frames in length.

Generative AI, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Video

41 points by limoce 3 days ago | 5 comments

ZeroBench: An Impossible Visual Benchmark for Contemporary LMMs (arxiv.org)
Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) exhibit major shortfalls when interpreting images and, by some measures, have poorer spatial cognition than small children or animals.

Generative AI, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Benchmarking

9 points by taesiri 4 days ago | 3 comments

To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't (seangoedecke.com)
It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code and rapidly getting better. Multiple multi-billion dollar attempts are currently being made to develop a pure-AI software engineer. The rough strategy - put a reasoning model in a loop with tools - is well-known and (in my view) seems likely to work. What should we software engineers do to prepare for what’s coming down the line?

Generative AI, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence

57 points by gfysfm 5 days ago | 79 comments

OmniParser V2 – A simple screen parsing tool towards pure vision based GUI agent (github.com/microsoft)
OmniParser is a comprehensive method for parsing user interface screenshots into structured and easy-to-understand elements, which significantly enhances the ability of GPT-4V to generate actions that can be accurately grounded in the corresponding regions of the interface.

Generative AI, Computer Vision, User Interface, Software, Tools

64 points by punnerud 5 days ago | 4 comments

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf] (microsoft.com)
Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University warn that the more you use AI, the more your cognitive abilities deteriorate.

Generative AI, Critical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, Research

129 points by nosianu 5 days ago | 99 comments

If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five minutes to ask it (svpow.com)
If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, AI Applications, Opinion

134 points by lycopodiopsida 5 days ago | 222 comments

Ask HN: Who's regularly using LLMs at work? (ycombinator.com)
For those of you that are, what do you do and what are you using them for?

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Work, Industry Use

9 points by Graviscalar 6 days ago | 20 comments

Gary Marcus discusses AI's technical problems (cacm.acm.org)
In an age of breathless predictions and sky-high valuations, cognitive scientist Gary Marcus has emerged as one of the best-known skeptics of generative artificial intelligence (AI). In fact, he recently wrote a book about his concerns, Taming Silicon Valley, in which he made the case that “we are not on the best path right now, either technically or morally.”

Artificial Intelligence, Skepticism, Generative AI

23 points by pseudolus 6 days ago | 29 comments

Diffusion Without Tears (notion.site)

Diffusion Models, AI, Generative AI, Computer Vision

62 points by jxmorris12 6 days ago | 20 comments

Anthropic's next major AI model could arrive within weeks (techcrunch.com)
AI startup Anthropic is gearing up to release its next major AI model, according to a report Thursday from The Information.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Startups

20 points by newusertoday 6 days ago | 7 comments

Evaluating RAG for large scale codebases (qodo.ai)
In a previous post, we introduced our approach to building a RAG-based system—designed to power generative AI coding assistants with the essential context needed to complete tasks and enhance code quality in large scale enterprise environments.

Generative AI, Code, AI Assistants, Enterprise

41 points by GavCo 6 days ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: Do you think AI is being hyped by "Surprisers"? (ycombinator.com)
Hi,HN<p>There is an internet meme in Japan called “Odrokiya(驚き屋)” who are overly surprised by the release of OpenAI and overstate the usefulness of AI.

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Technology, Japan, Memes

5 points by enpera 7 days ago | 10 comments