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reaperduceryesterday at 10:09 PM4 repliesview on HN

Sure, the task is not completed perfectly, but that's not the point.

Isn't it?

If the computer can't do it better than a human being, then what's the point?

Being wrong at scale is not better than being right.


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matthewfcarlsonyesterday at 10:25 PM

Many humans would struggle with this even with very good tooling (ie not writing raw svg and using illustrator). I struggle to draw a bicycle accurately. But yes, I suspect it will be diminishing returns and I doubt it will ever be perfect due to the average nature of AI but I’d like to be wrong.

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Buttons840yesterday at 10:57 PM

Hugely profitable companies leak half the nation's personal data every month. Tell me more about how being wrong at scale is not valuable.

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nemothekidyesterday at 10:27 PM

>If the computer can't do it better than a human being, then what's the point?

Because the benchmark wasn't testing "can an LLM draw a pelican like a human". The original article was testing the relative capabilities between LLMs. Now that LLMs can all draw pelicans all similarly, the test is less interesting as a comparative benchmark.

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kelnosyesterday at 11:16 PM

> If the computer can't do it better than a human being, then what's the point?

It can certainly do it better than I can. Sometimes you don't have a human handy with the required skills to do something.