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Re:Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models by AndrewKemendo on Saturday June 27, 2026 @10:49AM (#48698787)
I have yet to see a model that can make a consistent and repeatable powerpoint deck that doesn’t need considerable manual revision

Find me someone who is putting raw text in and getting out a usable weekly staff meeting deck that doesn’t require massive revisions

Re:Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models by yggy on Saturday June 27, 2026 @01:47PM (#48700201)
I agree but why is that?

Let’s face it - without the humans these machines ain’t shit - aka we have mechanically figured out ways to make machines better than us at certain things (on demand memory) but this idea they are intelligent is horse shit.

Btw the bar is low too! Most human created decks are garbage. And yet LLM’s don’t even beat those.

Re:Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models by AndrewKemendo on Saturday June 27, 2026 @10:11PM (#48703690)
Unfortunately matters of taste like design aren’t as easy to specify
Re:Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models by yggy on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:27AM (#48704349)
I doubt they’ll ever be.

Machines have nothing to do with what speaks to the human - at best they are media to transmit what a human wants to express.

Having all the data in the world doesn’t solve that. Although if enough of society gets exposed to slop and there is an erosion of taste and quality… in fact I’m gonna stop there. It’s a dark path.

Re:Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models by buthowjejddjeu on Sunday June 28, 2026 @04:04AM (#48705352)
It’s hard not to be cynical as a dev. Every time I see a non-dev messing around with tooling I feel pain and discomfort.

You can bet your ass I can make AI make a consistent and repeatable powerpoint deck.

Problem is a) the need to produce this “deck” is questionable, at best and b) thinking in “powerpoint” is severely lobotomizing and limits you and your company in ways I find hard to even enumerate.

The exact same bullshit is going on with “word”. People can’t separate content from form apparently and that’s a debilitating disability no AI can fix. Creating AI to help you with “word” documents is an infinitude of stupidity so dark and so deep it makes my eyes water and fear for the future of humanity.

All I can say is imagine you do NOT have “powerpoint”. Let’s say all you have is a whiteboard with a 10% pen so you have to keep it short. What do you intend to communicate? Drill down and stop thinking in “powerpoint” and start thinking in content.

Content and form are orthogonal, repeat after me.

Once you have a stable and consistent information schema you can create “decks” till the cows come home and they’ll all be great. You won’t even need special AI for it in all likelihood. If you do not have a firm handle on the payload itself you’ll be forever tangling with “fonts” and “charts” getting none the wiser.

Re:Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models by AndrewKemendo on Sunday June 28, 2026 @11:28AM (#48708206)
Bro what?