Samuli Laato

Assistant professor of information systems at @uniTurku

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@ashdgandhi Fair enough. So just accelerating an existing trend?

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@ashdgandhi The systems we rely on to ensure that this is the case (peer review) are getting destroyed by a genAI slop tsunami.

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@signulll This graph is illustrative of what's happening everywhere where genAI tools are adopted. We get more and more (more than we can process) and close to 100% of this new output is worse than what we already had.

The net contribution to humanity so far is overwhelmingly negative.

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@YGandelsman @CVPR My PhD supervisor Erkki Sutinen used to talk about "cleaning up dirt from the corners" as a metaphor for research that did not seek broaden our understanding.

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@LostMemeArchive Other rumors like there being a Pokemon number #151 turned out to be true!

There for sure was deliberate mystification of Pokemon back in the early days.

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@reporterchris A legendary game

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@ThePrimeagen How many of those 15 prompts can be re-used when producing the next top quality 45 lines?

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@PhiloGroves Not to mention when you do try to manually find videos of new topics of interest, it is mostly AI slop masquerading as meaningful content

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@Stealth40k Welcome Tour didn't deserve that. The poor thing never had a chance because of the pricing controversy.

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@JhanHky He still has many years left of a relatively cheap contract. If that contract gets transferred it's an amazing deal for any team.

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@atelicinvest We fear that no one notices us or our work in this sea of slop in which we now swim. AI agents are the new judge of our ability.

Now this is depressing!

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

AI slop on YouTube has gotten so bad that I get excited when I find a 3+ year old video.

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@ThePrimeagen You might have very specific use cases where the output is 100x. But not all the time and certainly not for non-standard artisan tasks. I am not sure if even 1.1x is possible for those.

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@MitsuhiroArita When I was 10 years old I traded a vulpix TCG card for that Charizard at my school yard. One of the happiest days of my life.

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@PokeDailyPost Pokemon Centers should have variety and personality within games. Good examples are the first season of the anime or Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Another thing: what you get from writing things yourself isn't just the code. It's an improved understanding of what the code does. That mental model is what lets you come up with further improvements, or invent a different way of doing things. You can't come up with ways to improve a blackbox you don't understand.

For most projects this doesn't really matter, because the code is the only thing you need. But if you're doing something novel, if you're doing research, the code is not the most important part. Understanding what the code does is the most important part.

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@Wardixo The reason the worker count was increased to begin with was that the early game had became extremely stale and boring due to nerfing all cheeses. If we bring back creative openings and genuine strategic alternatives to the early game it might get less boring?

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@CallMeTasteless I hope that cheeses and more creative opening come back!!

Also a smaller worker count at the start should make the game more accessible to beginners.

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@BatVibes You could, however, use a poke doll and escape the fight entirely in Red and Blue.

[Samuli Laato @LaatoSamuli]

@karrisaarinen Imo the 100x, 1000x productivity cases are still quite rare. All other bottlenecks have to be dealt with and then in addition you have to be able to push the code into production without reading it.