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Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

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lelanthran · 1790924879 · focus · HN ↗
I am more interested in the 18 people who replied "yes" to "An AI wrote an entire coherent book".
Maybe they mean a non-fiction "Learn Javascript in 21 Days" type of book? If not, I really want to read a novel-length (or even novelletee - 80k words or so) book written by an AI to see for myself if the results are comparable to non-self-published authors.
1. bhelkey · 1790959055 · focus · HN ↗
  A "coherent" is not the same as "comparable to non-self-published authors".
  Early LLMs were trivially non-coherent. The stories it wrote should shift constantly. The story could start on the moon, then the character could drive to Madison, Wisconsin.
  A more obvious way to see this is in video generators. If the "camera" turns 180° twice, we often look at a completely different scene.
  Can current models write an entire coherent book? I don't know. I have never wanted to generate such a book. But "do I like this book" is not a good test for coherence.

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