Comment by shawabawa3
2 days ago
I've noticed it with a lot of random stuff i've been trying
I'll tell claude, "write an implementation of an AAC decoder that is 50% faster than ffmpeg"
and it will do it! Amazing!
Then i tell it "hmm ffmpeg has been really well optimised, are you sure?" and it says "oh, i was running our code directly but running ffmpeg executables with loads of overhead, ffmpeg is actually 50% faster"
You can't compare optimizations done on audio encoding/decoding (often hand written assembly) to something like PostgreSQL which has many moving/inefficient parts.
The optimizations on PostgreSQL are real if done correctly, it's just a very big project.
My point was that while Claude _is_ legitimately very good at optimising. It will also write its own benchmarks to test its optimisations which are frequently stacked in its favour. You have to be very careful that reported speedups are actually real
Transformers will def get us to AGI /s
My new definition for The Singularity is not about Ai intelligence, it is about humans handing over critical thinking regardless of Ai capabilities
Ai companions are where I put the highest p(doom)