Hacker News with Generative AI: Generative AI

Yann LeCun, Pioneer of AI, Thinks Today's LLM's Are Nearly Obsolete (newsweek.com)
Ask Yann LeCun—Meta's chief AI scientist, Turing Award winner, NYU data scientist and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence—about the future of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, Meta's Llama and Anthropic's Claude, and his answer might startle you: He believes LLMs will be largely obsolete within five years.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI
4 points by alphadelphi 2 hours ago | 0 comments
Multi-Token Attention (arxiv.org)
Soft attention is a critical mechanism powering LLMs to locate relevant parts within a given context. However, individual attention weights are determined by the similarity of only a single query and key token vector. This "single token attention" bottlenecks the amount of information used in distinguishing a relevant part from the rest of the context.
Generative AI
39 points by fzliu 2 hours ago | 12 comments
What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test (tines.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Technology
66 points by 1as 5 hours ago | 33 comments
AI Ambivalence (nolanlawson.com)
I’ve avoided writing this post for a long time, partly because I try to avoid controversial topics these days, and partly because I was waiting to make my mind up about the current, all-consuming, conversation-dominating topic of generative AI.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Opinion
15 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 4 comments
Show HN: Open Responses – Self-hosted OpenAI Responses API, works with any model (github.com/julep-ai)
Open Responses lets you run a fully self-hosted version of OpenAI's Responses API. It works seamlessly with any large language model (LLM) provider—whether it's Claude, Qwen, Deepseek R1, Ollama, or others. It's a fully-compatible drop-in replacement for the official API. Swap out OpenAI without changing your existing Agents SDK code.
Open Source, Generative AI, API
21 points by diwank 7 hours ago | 2 comments
Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers (engadget.com)
Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024, the foundation said in an update. But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles and for watching videos or downloading files from Wikimedia Commons. No, the spike in usage came from AI crawlers, or automated programs scraping Wikimedia's openly licensed images, videos, articles and other files to train generative artificial intelligence models.
Wikipedia, AI, Generative AI, Data Scraping, Open Source
83 points by bretpiatt 12 hours ago | 95 comments
Grok, built by xAI, has labeled Musk as the top misinformation spreader on X (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Generative AI, Social Media, Twitter, Misinformation, Elon Musk
8 points by doener 14 hours ago | 0 comments
UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test (arxiv.org)
We evaluated 4 systems (ELIZA, GPT-4o, LLaMa-3.1-405B, and GPT-4.5) in two randomised, controlled, and pre-registered Turing tests on independent populations.
Generative AI, Turing Test, AI Research
82 points by Mossy9 14 hours ago | 100 comments
We need a better term for GenAI output – "slop" is too benign (rockpapershotgun.com)
Earlier this month, Snail Games put out a widely and justifiably clowned-on genAI trailer for Ark: Survival Evolved's Aquatica DLC.
Generative AI, Video Games, Terminology, Criticism, AI
9 points by fjghajkhdfgjlk 15 hours ago | 0 comments
Text to Bark from ElevenLabs [video] (youtube.com)
AI, Generative AI, Video
9 points by explosion-s 1 day ago | 2 comments
LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite (theregister.com)
Gartner says the market for large language model (LLM) providers is on the cusp of an extinction phase as it grapples with the capital-intensive costs of building products in a competitive market.
Generative AI, Business, Technology, AI
84 points by abawany 2 days ago | 69 comments
OpenAI plans to release a new 'open' AI language model in the coming months (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI says that it intends to release its first “open” language model since GPT‑2 “in the coming months.”
Generative AI, Open Source, AI
4 points by kartikarti 2 days ago | 0 comments
Everything is Ghibli (carly.substack.com)
OpenAI unleashed its native image generation in ChatGPT on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, every social feed was drowning in Studio Ghibli-style portraits. (Linkedin, check back next week.) What happened—and why—is another signal of where AI, art, and our attention are headed.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Art, Social Media
205 points by ghuntley 2 days ago | 334 comments
GPT-4o helped me re-create classic cartoons with myself as a character (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Generative AI, AI Art, Humor, Social Media
12 points by ykhli 2 days ago | 0 comments
LLM Workflows then Agents: Getting Started with Apache Airflow (github.com/astronomer)
This repository contains an SDK for working with LLMs from Apache Airflow, based on Pydantic AI. It allows users to call LLMs and orchestrate agent calls directly within their Airflow pipelines using decorator-based tasks. The SDK leverages the familiar Airflow @task syntax with extensions like @task.llm, @task.llm_branch, and @task.agent.
Apache Airflow, Workflow Automation, Generative AI, Python
128 points by alittletooraph2 2 days ago | 40 comments
DeepSeek surpasses ChatGPT in new monthly visits (indiatimes.com)
Generative AI, AI, Competition
66 points by belter 2 days ago | 17 comments
Runway Gen-4 (runwayml.com)
A new generation of consistent and controllable media is here.
Generative AI, New Releases, Software
78 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 23 comments
RLHF Is Cr*P, It's a Paint Job on a Rusty Car: Geoffrey Hinton (officechai.com)
RLHF, or Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, is behind some of the recent advances in AI, but one of the pioneers of the field doesn’t think highly of it.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Generative AI
15 points by gitremote 2 days ago | 6 comments
Amazon introduces Nova Chat (aboutamazon.com)
Amazon makes it easier for developers and tech enthusiasts to explore Amazon Nova, its advanced Gen AI models
Amazon, Generative AI, AI Models, Cloud Computing, Tech
77 points by ao98 2 days ago | 54 comments
Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison (composio.dev)
Google just launched Gemini 2.5 Pro on March 26th, claiming to be the best in coding, reasoning and overall everything. But I mostly care about how the model compares against the best available coding model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking), released at the end of February, which I have been using, and it has been a great experience
Coding, Generative AI, AI Comparison
466 points by mraniki 3 days ago | 323 comments
GPT-4o draws itself as a consistent type of guy (danielpaleka.com)
When asked to draw itself as a person, the ChatGPT Create Image feature introduced on March 25, 2025, consistently portrays itself as a white male in his 20s with brown hair, often sporting facial hair and glasses.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Social Commentary
19 points by dpaleka 3 days ago | 9 comments
AI Experts Say We're on the Wrong Path to Achieving Human-Like AI (gizmodo.com)
According to a panel of hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers, the field is currently pursuing artificial general intelligence the wrong way.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Research, Science, Technology
9 points by rntn 3 days ago | 0 comments
What Anthropic Researchers Found After Reading Claude's 'Mind' Surprised Them (singularityhub.com)
Despite popular analogies to thinking and reasoning, we have a very limited understanding of what goes on in an AI’s “mind.”
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Research, Language Models
6 points by Brajeshwar 3 days ago | 0 comments
What is Zombie Prompting: in 5 simple images (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Generative AI, Twitter
4 points by bosky101 3 days ago | 0 comments
Qwen2.5-Omni Technical Report (huggingface.co)
In this report, we present Qwen2.5-Omni, an end-to-end multimodal model designed to perceive diverse modalities, including text, images, audio, and video, while simultaneously generating text and natural speech responses in a streaming manner.
Generative AI, Multimodal, Text Generation, Speech Generation
6 points by wertyk 3 days ago | 0 comments
Karpathy's 'Vibe Coding' Movement Considered Harmful (nmn.gl)
Last Tuesday at 1 AM, I was debugging a critical production issue in my AI dev tool. As I dug through layers of functions, I suddenly realized — unlike the new generation of developers, I was grateful that I could actually understand my codebase. That’s when I started thinking more about Karpathy’s recent statements on vibe coding.
Generative AI, Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Software Development
14 points by thunderbong 4 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: I built a tool that generates quizzes from documents using LLMs (ycombinator.com)
Hey everyone! I recently built this little side project that takes any document you upload and turns it into practice quizzes using LLMs to generate the questions: https://www.cuiz-ai.com
LLMs, Generative AI, Education, Tools
10 points by nelson687 5 days ago | 4 comments
Ask HN: Are LLMs just answering what we want to hear? (ycombinator.com)
I keep seeing those tweets and posts where users ask ChatGPT or a similar LLM to describe them etc... and it always answers positive cool stuff which reinforces what the user wants to hear.
Generative AI, User Interaction, Bias
10 points by ggwp99 5 days ago | 14 comments
ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically (psypost.org)
An examination of a large number of ChatGPT responses found that the model consistently exhibits values aligned with the libertarian-left segment of the political spectrum. However, newer versions of ChatGPT show a noticeable shift toward the political right. The paper was published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.
Generative AI, Politics, Research
9 points by giuliomagnifico 5 days ago | 0 comments
We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some) (landh.tech)
In 2024 we released the blog post We Hacked Google A.I. for $50,000, where we traveled in 2023 to Las Vegas with Joseph "rez0" Thacker, Justin "Rhynorater" Gardner, and myself, Roni "Lupin" Carta, on a hacking journey that spanned from Las Vegas, Tokyo to France, all in pursuit of Gemini vulnerabilities during Google's LLM bugSWAT event. Well, we did it again …
Security, Generative AI, Hacking, Google
663 points by topsycatt 5 days ago | 142 comments