LLMs might be a dead end, but we're going to have amazing images, video, and 3D.

To me the AI revolution is making visual media (and music) catch up with the text-based revolution we've had since the dawn of computing.

Computers accelerated typing and text almost immediately, but we've had really crude tools for images, video, and 3D despite graphics and image processing algorithms.

AI really pushes the envelope here.

I think images/media alone could save AI from "the bubble" as these tools enable everyone to make incredible content if you put the work into it.

Everyone now has the ingredients of Pixar and a music production studio in their hands. You just need to learn the tools and put the hours in and you can make chart-topping songs and Hollywood grade VFX. The models won't get you there by themselves, but using them in conjunction with other tools and understanding as to what makes good art - that can and will do it.

Screw ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and the rest. This is the exciting part of AI.

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Sevii 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How can LLMs be a dead end? The last improvement in LLMs came out this week.

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dangoodmanUT 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wouldn’t call LLMs a dead end, they’re so useful as-is

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echelon 11 hours ago | parent [-]

LLMs are useful, but they've hit a wall on the path to automating our jobs. Benchmark scores are just getting better at test taking. I don't see them replacing software engineers without overcoming obstacles.

AI for images, video, music - these tools can already make movies, games, and music today with just a little bit of effort by domain experts. They're 10,000x time and cost savers. The models and tools are continuing to get better on an obvious trend line.

	▲	atonse 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm literally a software engineer, and a business owner. I don't think about this in binary terms (replacement or not), but just like CMS's replaced the jobs of people that write HTML by hand to build websites, I think whole classes of software development will get democratized. For example, I'm currently vibe coding an app that will be specific to our company, that helps me run all the aspects of our business and integrates with our systems (so it'll integrate with quickbooks for invoicing, etc), and help us track whether we have the right insurance across multiple contracts, will remind me about contract deadlines coming up, etc. It's going to combine the information that's currently in about 10 different slightly out of sync spreadsheets, about 2 dozen google docs/drive files, and multiple external systems (Gusto, Quickbooks, email, etc). Even though I could build all this manually (as a software developer), I'd never take the time to do it, because it takes away from client work. But now I can actually do it because the pace is 100x faster, and in the background while I'm doing client work.

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dyauspitr 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Doesn’t seem like a dead end at all. Once we can apply LLMs to the physical world and its outputs control robot movements it’s essentially game over for 90% of the things humans do, AGI or not.