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Alan Turing had a great test (not definition) of AGI, which we seem to have forgotten. No I don't think an LLM can pass a Turing Test (at least I could break it).

The actual test discussed by Turing wasn't very demanding. There has been some goal post shifting since then.

I think it gave up trying to solve Pokemon. :) Seriously, aren't these ARC-AGI problems easy for most people? They usually involve some sort of pattern recognition and visual reasoning.


That's wild, I thought it was referencing a popular 80s action movie by James Cameron, but yeah then I clicked, and realized it was neither.


I feel like 70% of open source projects on GitHub say written in the language that they were written in


I feel like the likelihood that a project will say what language it is written in is much higher if that language is Rust. I like Rust but I do find this trend a little annoying. (Even though I acknowledge that "written in Rust" probably means the tool is relatively new, not buggy, and easy to use.)


> Even though I acknowledge that "written in Rust" probably means the tool is relatively new, not buggy, and easy to use.

I genuinely chose the language for one of my projects based on this reasoning. I want to be in the nice UX gang.


Unfortunately the speed of AI/ML is so crazy fast. I don't know a better way to keep track other than paying attention all the time. The field also loves memey names. A few years ago everyone was naming models after Sesame Street characters, there were the YOLO family of models. Conference papers are not immune, in fact they are greatest "offenders".


Did they change the system prompt? Because it was basically "don't say anything bad about Elon or Trump". I'll take AI sycophancy over real (actually I use openrouter.ai, but that's a different story).


It certainly could be, but not all technological advancement is necessarily dystopian. You say, currently everyone now has access to this, while before it was only available to nation states who could hire teams of skilled analyst s. I mean, I agree it's scary that now a stalker could track a victim, but cars and cameras probably help as well. So, I think it's fair to challenge "dystopian", someone will use it for non-nefarious purposes.


It definitely means something, probably an app designed around being interacted by with an LLM, upon first hearing it. Browser interaction is one of those things that is a great killer app for LLMs IMO.

For instance, I just discovered there are a ton of high quality scans of film and slides available at the Library of Congress website, but I don't really enjoy their interface. I could build a scraping tool and get too much info, or suffer and use just clicking through their search UI. Or I could ask my browser tool wielding LLM agent to automate the boring stuff and provide a map of the subjects I would be interested in, and give me a different way to discover things. I've just discovered the entire browser automation thing, and I'm having fun have my LLM go "research" for a few minutes while I go do something else.


On the trip to my local recycling center I immediately did a double take when I saw a pair of Eizo GX540 monochrome medical diagnostic displays sitting there. I've got these babies hooked up and I can see myself using this e-ink mode and the grayscale nature of these monitors. Although these monitors weren't intended for productivity they are very good at editing B&W photography, terminal work, and even old films.


So a crappy version of aider?


Aider doesn't have a more agentic/full-auto mode (at least not yet, there's a promising PR for this in review).

There may or may not also be some finessing necessary in the prompting and feedback loop regardless of model, which some tools may do better than others.


The AI companies don't understand that they're the commodity. The real tools are the open source glue (today: aider) that bring the models into conversation with data and meaningmakers like ourselves.


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