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thorum 8 hours ago

I wish them all the best and hope they succeed, but can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis. Even if you assume they can build this thing and it works as described and then get past all the regulatory hurdles, the scale of infrastructure they’re talking about is enormous.

jrmg 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis

This is what came to my mind first too. It feels like the sort of thing you could come up with after a lot of ‘that’s a great insight!’, with the LLM eventually projecting absolute certainty that it’s a ground-breaking idea that’s definitely going to work.

I’m not sure whether I like that this is my knee-jerk reaction.

Do they have any sort of prototypes of this hardware that’s going to be working reliably in their custom-built spa in the notoriously difficult-to-get-permits-in San Francisco by the end of next year?…

randycupertino 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> David Holz is the Founder & CEO of Midjourney, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform that allows users to generate unique artwork such as characters, images and depictions through short text prompts.

I guess they pivoted from making ai-artwork to ultrasounds?

meric_ 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They founded LeapMotion previously which was pretty big and totally unrelated to AI. They've been doing all sorts of shenanigans it seems

sberens 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Also fmr cofounder of leap motion, which developed a mouse that didn't you to touch it!

nonethewiser 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis

What do you mean here?

The idea came from LLMs? They built this with LLMs?

devmor 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They are probably referring to the very real and unfortunate phenomenon wherein people use LLMs as sounding boards without consulting other humans, current frontier LLMs being heavily sycophantic in their responses.

This tends to create a feedback loop where unsound ideas are amplified.

nonethewiser 8 hours ago | parent [-]

So the idea is Midjourney uses LLMs as a sounding board and came up with this idea?

da_grift_shift 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah. This is a "Long Blockchain"-tier pivot and it will go nowhere.

Current Vibes:

https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/1883770659974889769

https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/2040939992068096018

rellfy 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can just build things

WalterGR 8 hours ago | parent [-]

“Just building” radiation emitters like CT scanners is a bad idea.

oompydoompy74 8 hours ago | parent [-]

This is ultrasound. You didn’t read the article. It’s perfectly safe.