If I was on the "replace all the meatsacks AGI ftw" team then I would have referred to it as an oracle, by your own logic, wouldn't I have?
It's a tool. It's good for some things, not for others. Use the right tool for the job and know the job well enough to know which tools apply to which tasks.
More than anything it's a learning tool. It's also wildly effective at writing code, too. But, man... the things that it makes available to the curious mind are rather unreal.
I used it to help me turn a cat exercise wheel (think huge hamster wheel) into a generator that produces enough power to charge a battery that powers an ESP32 powered "CYD" touchscreen LCD that also utilizes a hall effect sensor to monitor, log and display the RPMs and "speed" (given we know the wheel circumference) in real time as well as historically.
I didn't know anything about all this stuff before I started. I didn't AGI myself here. I used a learning tool.
But keep up with your schtick if that's what you want to do.
Oracles have their use too, but as long as you keep confusing "oracle" and "tool" you will get nowhere.
P.S. The real big deal is the democratization of oracles. Back in the day building an oracle was a megaproject accessible only to megacorps like Google. Today you can build one for nothing if you have a gaming GPU and use it for powering your kobold text adventure session.
>I used it to help me turn a cat exercise wheel (think huge hamster wheel) into a generator that produces enough power to charge a battery that powers an ESP32 powered "CYD" touchscreen LCD that also utilizes a hall effect sensor to monitor, log and display the RPMs and "speed" (given we know the wheel circumference) in real time as well as historically.
So what? That's honestly amateur hour. And the LLM derived all of it from things that have been done and posted about a thousand times before.
You could have achieved the same thing with a few google searches 15 years ago (obviously not with ESP32, but other microcontrollers).
Right - it's not a big deal and it LITERALLY is amateur hour. But I did it. I wouldn't have done it prior, sure I could have done a bunch of google searches but the time investment it would have taken to sift through all that information and distill it into actionable chunks would have far exceeded the benefit of doing so, in this case.
The whole point is that it is amateur hour and it's wildly effective as a learning tool.
The fact it derived everything from things that have been done... yea, that's also the point? What point are you trying to make here? I'm well aware it's not a great tool if you're trying to use it to create novel things... but I'm not a nuclear physicist. I'm a builder, fixer, tinkerer who happens to make a living writing code. I use it to teach me how to do things, I use it to analyze problems and recommend approaches that I can then delve into myself.
I'm not asking it to fold proteins. (I guess that's been done quite a bit too, so would be amateur as well)
>The whole point is that it is amateur hour and it's wildly effective as a learning tool.
You sound so proud of your accomplishment, and I question if there's really nothing to be proud of here. I doubt you really learned anything, a machine told you what to do and you did it, like coloring by numbers - it doesn't make you an artist. You won't be able to build upon it, without asking the machine to do more of the thinking for you. And I think that's kind of sad.
>I'm a builder, fixer, tinkerer who happens to make a living writing code
I have to doubt that. If you were all those things, you would have been able to complete that project with very little effort, and without a machine telling you what to do.
OP was writing how great the LLM is, and that he couldn't do this stuff as easily before LLMs. And that simply isn't true.
Instead of breaking down the task himself into achievable steps, the LLM did that "thinking" for him. This will inevitably lead to atrophy of the brain. If you don't exercise your brain, and let the tin-can tell you what to do, you're going to get pretty dull. It's well known that keeping your brain active, solving problems, will keep your mental abilities strong. Using LLMs is the opposite of that.
lmao - I'm not at all proud of what you called an accomplishment. I literally said it _is_ amateur hour, it's hacked together, not safe, not stylish, not well engineered. But it does work. And despite your assumption about me learning anything - I had _no idea_ how generators worked. The realization that spinning an electric motor would result in electricity being produced blew my mind and got me asking claude things related to that, then I wanted to interface a wheel against my wheel to spin a stepper motor to get a charge and had the hair brain idea to just make the whole thing the generator instead. None of this was stuff I knew.
Despite this thing I made being rather useless in the grand scheme of things it was _wildly_ illuminating in terms of my understanding of electricity and the various objects around me and how they function. Which has spurred another rabbit hole that is having _real measurable effect_ for a host of feral cats to live a more comfortable life. (Not the wheel generator thing)
> a machine told you what to do and you did it, like coloring by numbers - it doesn't make you an artist.
I never claimed to be an artist ;) And, maybe it's different for you, but someone or something showing me how to do something is quite literally the best way for me to learn. /shrug
> I have to doubt that. If you were all those things, you would have been able to complete that project with very little effort, and without a machine telling you what to do.
It's a tool. It's good for some things, not for others. Use the right tool for the job and know the job well enough to know which tools apply to which tasks.
More than anything it's a learning tool. It's also wildly effective at writing code, too. But, man... the things that it makes available to the curious mind are rather unreal.
I used it to help me turn a cat exercise wheel (think huge hamster wheel) into a generator that produces enough power to charge a battery that powers an ESP32 powered "CYD" touchscreen LCD that also utilizes a hall effect sensor to monitor, log and display the RPMs and "speed" (given we know the wheel circumference) in real time as well as historically.
I didn't know anything about all this stuff before I started. I didn't AGI myself here. I used a learning tool.
But keep up with your schtick if that's what you want to do.