logoalt Hacker News

ddevnyctoday at 2:22 PM4 repliesview on HN

I am particularly curious how multimodal models will work with types of knowledge that are inherently non-text. For example, SOTA LLMs really suck at electronics, especially analog electronics.

Is MiniMax H3 capable of logical / technical reasoning, or is it purely art oriented?


Replies

jononortoday at 3:02 PM

Suck at what aspect of (analog) electronics specifically? Not contradicting the claim, just want to understand it.

I have not tested yet, but I suspect that LLMs with a harness that can execute code can do SPICE simulations rather ok these days? I have seen MCPs for measurement equipment also, maybe they can even close the physical loop?

show 1 reply
embedding-shapetoday at 2:51 PM

> work with types of knowledge that are inherently non-text

What are those things exactly? AFAIK, everything we can "know" can be written down, one way or another, even analog circuits.

Also, what SOTA LLMs are you referring to? GPTs been handling analog circuits fine for quite some time, I want to say for at least one year? I've been "pair programming" a bunch of working circuits with GPT models since probably GPT 5 or so.

show 2 replies
chpatricktoday at 3:00 PM

I've had great results on electronics with Claude and Gemini.

show 1 reply
echelontoday at 2:53 PM

They can be used to create synthetic training data for robotics. It's not the best approach, though.

show 1 reply