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Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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3337 points keepamovin | 2 comments | 09 Dec 25 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.557s | source
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Bjartr ◴[09 Dec 25 17:57 UTC] No.46208149[source]▶
For comparison, here's the frontpage from ten years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-12-09

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seizethecheese ◴[09 Dec 25 18:30 UTC] No.46208605[source]▶
Today's front page is not a clean 10 year extrapolation from this. That's where AI is wrong. The future is weird and zig zags, it's not so linear as the Gemini generated page.
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1. neuronic ◴[09 Dec 25 19:36 UTC] No.46209505[source]▶
This is a problem with nearly all predictions about the future. Everything is just a linear extrapolation of the status quo. How could a system have predicted the invention of the transformer model in 2010? At best some wild guess about deep learning possibilities.

Or the impact of smartphones in 2003? Sure smart phones were considered but not the entire app ecosystem and planetary behavioral adaptation.

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2. seizethecheese ◴[09 Dec 25 20:09 UTC] No.46209963[source]▶
Yes, of course this is right. However, I do think LLMs suffer even more than people from linear extrapolation.