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I wish them all the best and hope they succeed, but can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis. Even if you assume they can build this thing

by thorum 3mo ago

I wish them all the best and hope they succeed, but can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis. Even if you assume they can build this thing and it works as described and then get past all the regulatory hurdles, the scale of infrastructure they’re talking about is enormous.

rellfy 3mo ago
You can just build things
- WalterGR 3mo ago
  “Just building” radiation emitters like CT scanners is a bad idea.
  - oompydoompy74 3mo ago
    This is ultrasound. You didn’t read the article. It’s perfectly safe.
randycupertino 3mo ago
> David Holz is the Founder & CEO of Midjourney, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform that allows users to generate unique artwork such as characters, images and depictions through short text prompts. I guess they pivoted from making ai-artwork to ultrasounds?
- meric_ 3mo ago
  They founded LeapMotion previously which was pretty big and totally unrelated to AI. They've been doing all sorts of shenanigans it seems
- sberens 3mo ago
  Also fmr cofounder of leap motion, which developed a mouse that didn't you to touch it!
nonethewiser 3mo ago
> can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis What do you mean here? The idea came from LLMs? They built this with LLMs?
- devmor 3mo ago
  They are probably referring to the very real and unfortunate phenomenon wherein people use LLMs as sounding boards without consulting other humans, current frontier LLMs being heavily sycophantic in their responses. This tends to create a feedback loop where unsound ideas are amplified.
  - nonethewiser 3mo ago
    So the idea is Midjourney uses LLMs as a sounding board and came up with this idea?
- da_grift_shift 3mo ago
  Yeah. This is a "Long Blockchain"-tier pivot and it will go nowhere. Current Vibes: https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/1883770659974889769 https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/1883770659974889769 https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/2040939992068096018 https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/2040939992068096018
jrmg 3mo ago
can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis This is what came to my mind first too. It feels like the sort of thing you could come up with after a lot of ‘that’s a great insight!’, with the LLM eventually projecting absolute certainty that it’s a ground-breaking idea that’s definitely going to work. I’m not sure whether I like that this is my knee-jerk reaction. Do they have any sort of prototypes of this hardware that’s going to be working reliably in their custom-built spa in the notoriously difficult-to-get-permits-in San Francisco by the end of next year?…

by thorum 3mo ago

rellfy 3mo ago

You can just build things

WalterGR 3mo ago
“Just building” radiation emitters like CT scanners is a bad idea.
- oompydoompy74 3mo ago
  This is ultrasound. You didn’t read the article. It’s perfectly safe.

randycupertino 3mo ago

> David Holz is the Founder & CEO of Midjourney, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform that allows users to generate unique artwork such as characters, images and depictions through short text prompts. I guess they pivoted from making ai-artwork to ultrasounds?

meric_ 3mo ago
They founded LeapMotion previously which was pretty big and totally unrelated to AI. They've been doing all sorts of shenanigans it seems
sberens 3mo ago
Also fmr cofounder of leap motion, which developed a mouse that didn't you to touch it!

nonethewiser 3mo ago

> can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis What do you mean here? The idea came from LLMs? They built this with LLMs?

devmor 3mo ago
They are probably referring to the very real and unfortunate phenomenon wherein people use LLMs as sounding boards without consulting other humans, current frontier LLMs being heavily sycophantic in their responses. This tends to create a feedback loop where unsound ideas are amplified.
- nonethewiser 3mo ago
  So the idea is Midjourney uses LLMs as a sounding board and came up with this idea?
da_grift_shift 3mo ago
Yeah. This is a "Long Blockchain"-tier pivot and it will go nowhere. Current Vibes: https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/1883770659974889769 https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/1883770659974889769 https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/2040939992068096018 https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/2040939992068096018

jrmg 3mo ago

can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis This is what came to my mind first too. It feels like the sort of thing you could come up with after a lot of ‘that’s a great insight!’, with the LLM eventually projecting absolute certainty that it’s a ground-breaking idea that’s definitely going to work. I’m not sure whether I like that this is my knee-jerk reaction. Do they have any sort of prototypes of this hardware that’s going to be working reliably in their custom-built spa in the notoriously difficult-to-get-permits-in San Francisco by the end of next year?…