Comment by helterskelter

11 days ago

I don't know about AGI but I got bored and ran my plans for a new garage by Opus 4.6 and it was giving me some really surprising responses that have changed my plans a little. At the same time, it was also making some nonsense suggestions that no person would realistically make. When I prompted it for something in another chat which required genuine creativity, it fell flat on its face.

I dunno, mixed bag. Value is positive if you can sort the wheat from the chaff for the use cases I've ran by it. I expect the main place it'll shine for the near and medium term is going over huge data sets or big projects and flagging things for review by humans.

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bamboozled  11 days ago

I've used for similar things, I've had some good and disastrous results. In a way I feel like I'm basically where I was "before AI".

BatteryMountain  11 days ago

I've used it recently to flesh out a fully fledged business plan, pricing models, capacity planning & logistics for a 10 year period for a transport company (daily bus route). I already had most of it in my mind and on spreadsheets already (was an old plan that I wanted to revive), but seeing it figure out all the smaller details that would make or break it was amazing! I think MBA's should be worried as it did some things more comprehensive than an MBA would have done. It was like a had an MBA + Actuarial Scientist + Statistics + Domain Expert + HR/Accounting all in one. And the plan was put into a .md file that has enough structure to flesh out a backend and an app.

  • helterskelter  11 days ago

    Yeah it's really impressed me on occasion, but often in the same prompt output it just does something totally nonsensical. For my garage/shop, it generated an SVG of the proposed floor plan, taking care to place the sink away from moisture sensitive material and certain work stations close to each other for work flow, etc. it even routed plumbing and electrical...But it also arranged the work stations cramped together at the two narrow ends of the structure (such that they'd be impractical to actually work at) and ignored all the free wall space along the long axis so that literally most of the space was unused. It was also concerned about things that were non issues like contamination between certain stations, and had trouble when I explicitly told it something about station placement and it just couldn't seem to internalize it and kept putting it in the wrong place.

    All this being said, what I was throwing at it was really not what it was optimized for, and it still delivered some really good ideas.

  • bamboozled  11 days ago

    Isn't all of this only useful if you know the information presented is correct?

    • entech  10 days ago

      It seems that it’s useful if it’s better than what you would have done yourself.

      Although the poster had a bus company business plan that includes actuarial analysis in his head and some spreadsheets so that bar appears to be sufficiently high.

    • ravikapoor101  8 days ago

      if his skill level was very low, the AI plan would still be impressive at his skill level.

      In other words - If he was low skilled, AI would impress him. Now that he is high skilled, AI still impressed him.

      In other words - AI improves on what a human can do.