What can "Upma is Bad" teach you about Gen AI capabilities?
Demonstration of power: A site which can autogenerate entire websites on the fly
Gen AI is now so powerful that we are no longer limited by its capabilities; we are limited by our own lack of imagination. So, every once in a while, someone creates a proof-of-concept of something Gen AI can do, and it suddenly opens our eyes to new possibilities.
For example, check out this website: Upma is Bad - The Ultimate Breakfast Betrayal:
I created this entire website by simply typing the text https://ginprov.com/upma-is-bad/ in my browser’s address bar and pressing enter. The AI at ginprov.com automatically generated the entire website on the fly based on the words at the end of the URL. All the descriptions, all the images, and all the links were generated right now.
And it was awesome. I can’t decide which of these is a more apt description of upma.
You can try it out yourself. Just go to https://ginprov.com/ and type anything in the text box and see a website being created right there. The images are also autogenerated (as you can tell clearly if there is any text in any of them.)
For example, check out this one about Pune’s Airport. You have to admit that it is a pretty good overview of the subject!
What’s the point of this post? It is to give you an idea of what is possible. To help some of you upgrade your outdated thoughts about what Gen AI can do.
I regularly run into people who use Gen AI just to write emails and summarize articles. Many of them believe that Gen AI is just glorified autocomplete (or stochastic parrots) that can’t do anything substantial. I believe that about 20% to 40% of you are using Gen AI tools heavily and constantly thinking of new ways in which they can be incorporated in your work and life. This post isn’t for you—you can go back to your team of LLMs. For the rest of you, a majority, I hope this posts helps you understand that Gen AI is here, it is big, and you really need to spend more time with it.
Sometimes you need a demo to open your eyes. A friend of mine was lamenting that this autogenerated website is faster and better designed than ICICI’s Fastag KYC website!
I’m not saying that you should autogenerate your websites (or your video games). I’m just saying that you should update your intuition and imagination around what Gen AI can do for you, your company’s product (and your competitor’s products).