Comment by Night_Thastus
1 year ago
Tree + Water = river was also pretty baffling.
Unfortunate. I can see the appeal of using an LLM for this but the results are pretty mediocre.
1 year ago
Tree + Water = river was also pretty baffling.
Unfortunate. I can see the appeal of using an LLM for this but the results are pretty mediocre.
Tree + Water = River
This is a great result, a branching of water/wood.
I also got Dandelion + Engine = Helicopter, along these same lines.
I got s'more + smoke detector = captain hook
low-key genius or high-key misunderstood
As this is powered by an LLM, you are exploring its latent space. That means there isn't one logic behind everything - any association is fair game. Here, probably the strongest one wins.
LLMs are a great way to prompt human ingenuity in mental gymnastics
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As usual with language models, you have to put in the work yourself to have fun with them.
I laughed when "Vindaloo + Bubble" gave me "Burp", and "Burp + No Bacon" gave me "Sad"
Ham Solo + Darth Bacon = Pork Star
Ninja + Pig = Pork Chop
The rewilding guys would probably say 'that tracks'. Many of their efforts to get rivers to flow year round usually involve trees. Moss, bugs, rodents and grasses first then trees. Usually can help many areas to have year round streams again. As roots help water linger longer in an area. Which leads to streams.
Obviously the prompt to the LLM is just to create the most obvious association. It may not mention "crafting" at all. Maybe it does though. Is there something obvious to craft that uses a tree and water in the process?
To design a game like this you need to do a lot better than just creating the obvious association. It needs a mix of obvious recipes and clever recipes, so that there's challenge and a sense of achievement. Also, there's a starting point. What should the graph look like?
I'm sure Neal has done hard work in getting it right.
If you look at a river system from space I guess it looks tree-like with branches.
the tree of water is the global river system." very hydrological
Weed + tree = bong!
how do you make weed lol
Meh, what would be your great response to Tree + Water?
A human can only generate a small fraction of the combinations and would have a hard time coming up with most combinations which are already nonsensical.
What is your non-disappointing idea for, idk, Tears + Pottery (AI: Bowl) or Money + Salt Lick (AI: Cow) or Skull + Lake (AI: Loch Ness) or Dracula + Pirate (AI: Vampirate) or Curse + Money (AI: Debt)? Now do that thousands of more times.
The infinite aspect is the thing that keeps it interesting, I think. The fun is getting a new, weird result like "Dracula" and "Pot of Gold" and seeing if you can generate new weird results from the existing set.
I somehow got to Mega Evolution which I got from megalodon and some pokemon, but don’t ask me how to get to Pokémon.
Anyway, once you get that kind of a modifier, anything’s game for megaification.
Tree + Water is easy: Mangrove, Bald Cypress, Rhizophora, etc
I wouldn't consider those to be better. You're enhancing the tree side of the equation but gave no examples of the water side.
And why didn't you do the rest of my examples? ;)
Loch Ness? I skipped to the Loch Ness Monster. Got the Lake only later on. And then I got Nessie.
This is a Quagmire
Yeah Loch Ness Monster + Water gave me Nessie
Porkosaurus, Soup Nazi, Sphinxie, Sodium Chloride, Abdominable Snowman, Baconator and both Yeti and Godzilla. And Yogazilla which is a "First Discovery".
Found myself: Thomas the locomotive
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> Tears + Pottery (AI: Bowl)
Urn
Money + Salt Lick makes sense, if it’s a Cash Cow.
Did you figure out how to get math? I’ve been trying so hard!
Tree + water = canoe
Jungle
Forest
Fruit
Nuts