alt Hacker NewsNovel is different from a codebase. In code you can have a relationship between files and most files can be ignored depending on what you're doing. But for a novel, its a sequential thing, in most cases A leads to B and B leads to C and so on.
> Re: movies. Get YouTube premium and ask YouTube to summarize a 2hr video for you.
This is different from watching a movie. Can it tell what suit actor was wearing? Can it tell what the actor's face looked like? Summarising and watching are too different things.
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cmcaleer • today at 1:34 AM
You’re moving the goalposts. Gary Marcus’ proposal was being able to ask: Who are the characters? What are their conflicts and motivations? etc.
Which is a relatively trivial task for a current LLM.
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Yes, it is possible to do those things and there are benchmarks for testing multimodal models on their ability to do so. Context length is the major limitation but longer videos can be processed in small chunks whose descriptions can be composed into larger scenes.
https://github.com/JUNJIE99/MLVU
https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenGVLab/MVBench
Ovis and Qwen3-VL are examples of models that can work with multiple frames from a video at once to produce both visual and temporal understanding
https://huggingface.co/AIDC-AI/Ovis2.5-9B
https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-VL