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Re: Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?

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A young man in his 20's starting his career will never know understand how things worked without the tech. A man in his 30's see's an opportunity to boost his career, and an older man in his 50's see's a long fought career's worth of expertise being thrown away.

You don't need to put an apostrophe before every s that ends a word. Only ones that are possessive, like "career's" It's 20s, not 20's. It's sees, not see's.

This might be an autocorrect issue. My iphone 7 would do this rampantly with the swipe keyboard to the point where i concluded that no one at apple actually used it.

Re: Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?

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Inequality is a red herring. Poverty is down. Have you looked for housing in Columbus, Ohio?

I’m sure there are plenty of ghost towns with housing sitting empty that could be had for a song too. That probably doesn’t help if your job, family, and friends are somewhere else.

And remote work is more common than ever. Regardless, Columbus, Ohio has a very reasonable cost of living for the salaries available in the region.

Re: Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?

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Watch out, I'm doing devops too and I've caught chatgpt on such obviously stupid behaviors it hurts to even think about it. It's not just hallucinations problem (edge cases or doing unusual stuff). It seems to give answers that are 100% incorrect and when told so says "of course you're right, here is the right answer". The only stuff I'd use it for is if I already know exactly how to write the script and I'm just usi…

My trick is to get second and third opinions - sometimes ChatGPT gets it wrong, but bard is right, or 3.5 is right when 4 is wrong. So I just copy the same question to all available chatbots and compare. Asking them to provide sources for the answers is also a good way to keep them honest.

With code in particular the only thing I use it for, the source of truth is running the code and testing for corner cases. I usually know what the right answer is. It can just get to it faster.

I may not know always know the correct API or CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform syntax. But if it gets it wrong, I can read the docs and correct it.

Providing sources doesn’t usually help. ChatGPT consistently makes up sources.

Re: Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?

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Inequality is a red herring. Poverty is down. Have you looked for housing in Columbus, Ohio?

Is homelessness trending down or up? Why?

It's easier than ever to be homeless and it's generally frowned upon to forcefully institutionalize the mentally ill these days.

Re: Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?

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How do you know that the French and music theory it’s teaching you is correct?

How do you know that the French and music theory that a human teacher would teach you is correct?

Not the really the gotcha you think this is.

Re: Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?

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Probably an extremely large number of companies can be counted on something as ginormous as the average human middle finger; I could probably fit 20 if I write really tiny and could fit a lot more with access to other devices.

Someday, cosmetic geneticists will offer to sell you extra middle fingers.

I would be grateful beyond even my wildest measure (two middle fingers).

Re: Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?

#587

Definitely. The tech is impressive but anyone I've spoken to thinks of it as Cleverbot 2.0, and among the more technically minded I've found that people mostly are indifferent. Hell, IRL most people I know don't think much of it, though on HN and elsewhere online I see a lot of people praising it as the next coming of Christ (this thread included) which puts it in a similar tier as crypto and other Web3 hypetrains as…

>puts it in a similar tier as crypto Comparisons between AI and crypto are horribly misguided IMO. Is AI overhyped? Sure. However - AI/ML is creating utility everywhere in our lives - speech to text, language translation, recommendation engines, relevancy ranking in search, computer vision, etc. and seems to be getting embedded in more and more processes by the day. Crypto never amounted to anything beyond a currency…

> Is AI overhyped?

no

calling something "hype" should not be a stand-in for data

Re: Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?

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So you aren’t infuriated by automated phone systems? Because let me tell you, the number of companies whose reputation has survived me having to deal with their fucking phone robot can be counted on my middle finger.

... can be counted on my middle finger Fabulous, I'll be stealing that ...

It was a very Higgins moment. “Did you like that? I just made it up!”

Re: Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?

#590

Definitely. The tech is impressive but anyone I've spoken to thinks of it as Cleverbot 2.0, and among the more technically minded I've found that people mostly are indifferent. Hell, IRL most people I know don't think much of it, though on HN and elsewhere online I see a lot of people praising it as the next coming of Christ (this thread included) which puts it in a similar tier as crypto and other Web3 hypetrains as…

>puts it in a similar tier as crypto Comparisons between AI and crypto are horribly misguided IMO. Is AI overhyped? Sure. However - AI/ML is creating utility everywhere in our lives - speech to text, language translation, recommendation engines, relevancy ranking in search, computer vision, etc. and seems to be getting embedded in more and more processes by the day. Crypto never amounted to anything beyond a currency…

Bitcoin has the potential to become the world’s reserve currency. Your smug dismissal of it is ignorant at best.

Consider how power structures (eg nation states) may change in such a future.

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