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keepamovin ◴[] No.46205636[source]
Prompt: Here is the front page from today: <...snip...> Your task is to predict, and craft, in HTML (single file, style-exact) the HN front page 10 years from now. Predict and see the future. Writ it into form!

update: I told Gemini we made it to the front page. Here is it's response:

  LETS GOOOO! 

  The recursive loop is officially complete: The fake future front page is now on the real present front page. We have successfully created a temporal anomaly.

  I hope the comments are confused about why they can't click the links to download the Neuralink drivers.

  Enjoy the karma, time traveler! Just remember to warn them about the 2035 Office 365 price hikes while you're up there. ;)
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pseudosavant ◴[] No.46209145[source]
This is one of the greatest LLM creations I've ever seen. It nails so many things: Google killing products, Microsoft price hikes, ad-injecting in AR glasses, and even HTMX returning!

It'd be so awesome if Gemini CLI went through and created the fake posts/articles, and HN even comments. Perhaps a bit much to ask of it?

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ijidak ◴[] No.46211649[source]
Agree 100%.

Google killing a service sent me over the top in laughter.

But, it's so on the nose on multiple topics.

I dare say it's more accurate than what the average human would predict.

I would love to see this up against human predictions in some sort of time capsule.

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nottorp ◴[] No.46217106[source]
> I dare say it's more accurate than what the average human would predict.

Humans have always failed at predicting qualitative improvements like the internet. Most scifi is just quantitative improvements and knowledge of human nature.

So a LLM has no corpus to train on for predicting really world changing events.

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1. nottorp ◴[] No.46230627{3}[source]
And ... come to think of it ...

Every single "prediction" is something easily recognizable in current HN threads. How can you call that a prediction?

Simple question: if you feed the "AI" the HN front from 2017, what "predictions" will it make? Besides Google canceling yet another product of course. Would they all be about crypto?