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

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3338 points keepamovin | 11 comments | 09 Dec 25 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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hn_throwaway_99 ◴[10 Dec 25 02:00 UTC] No.46213179[source]▶
This is awesome, but minor quibble with the title - "hallucinates" is the wrong verb here. You specifically asked it to make up a 10-year-in-the-future HN frontpage, and that's exactly what it did. "Hallucinates" means when it randomly makes stuff up but purports it to be the truth. If some one asks me to write a story for a creative writing class, and I did, you wouldn't say I "hallucinated" the story.
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zwnow ◴[10 Dec 25 07:44 UTC] No.46215177[source]▶
If someone asked you, you would know about the context. LLMs are predictors, no matter the context length, they never "know" what they are doing. They simply predict tokens.
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1. block_dagger ◴[10 Dec 25 08:25 UTC] No.46215398[source]▶
This common response is pretty uninteresting and misleading. They simply predict tokens? Oh. What does the brain do, exactly?
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2. zwnow ◴[10 Dec 25 08:58 UTC] No.46215589[source]▶
The brain has intrinsic understanding of the world engraved in our DNA. We do not simply predict tokens based on knowledge, we base our thoughts on intelligence, emotions and knowledge. LLMs neither have intelligence nor emotions. If your brain simply predicts tokens I feel sorry for you.

Edit: really does not surprise me that AI bros downvote this. Expecting to understand human values from people that want to make themselves obsolete was a mistake.

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3. wafflemaker ◴[10 Dec 25 10:01 UTC] No.46215987[source]▶
It does exactly the same, predicts tokens, but it's totally different and superior to LLMs /s

OTOH, brain tokens seem to be concept based and not always linguistic (many people think solely in images/concepts).

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4. adammarples ◴[10 Dec 25 11:05 UTC] No.46216410[source]▶
We don't how
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5. pseidemann ◴[10 Dec 25 11:38 UTC] No.46216625[source]▶
> The brain has intrinsic understanding of the world engraved in our DNA.

This is not correct. The DNA encodes learning mechanisms shaped by evolution. But there is no "Wikipedia" about the world in the DNA. The DNA is shaped by the process of evolution, and is not "filled" by seemingly random information.

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6. ricardobeat ◴[10 Dec 25 11:54 UTC] No.46216725[source]▶
LLMs are “concept based” too, if you can call statistical patterns that. In a multi-modal model the embeddings for text, image and audio exist in the same high-dimensional space.

We don’t seem to have any clue if this is how our brain works, yet.

7. zwnow ◴[10 Dec 25 12:25 UTC] No.46216944{3}[source]▶
> But there is no "Wikipedia" about the world in the DNA.

Im surprised as to how you got to that conclusion by my wording. I never claimed u have something like a knowledge base in ur DNA...

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8. Timwi ◴[10 Dec 25 13:01 UTC] No.46217202[source]▶
I'm not an AI bro and I downvoted mostly because of the addendum.
9. pseidemann ◴[10 Dec 25 13:28 UTC] No.46217464{4}[source]▶
It's your first sentence. The one I have quoted.
10. KalMann ◴[10 Dec 25 16:26 UTC] No.46219733[source]▶
> It does exactly the same, predicts tokens,

That is an absolutely wild claim you've made. You're being way to presumptious.

11. digbybk ◴[10 Dec 25 18:48 UTC] No.46221772[source]▶
I guarantee that once we do know people will start appending the word “just” to the explanation. Complex behaviors emerge from simple components. Knowing that doesn’t make the emergence any more incredible.