AI is great. ChatGPT is incredible. But I feel tired when I see so many new products being built that incorporate AI in some way, like "AI for this..." "AI for that..." I think it misapplies AI. But more than that, it's just too much. Right? Right? Anyone else feel like this? Everything is about ChatGPT, AI, prompts or startups we can build with that. It's like the crypto craze all over again, and I'm a little in dread of the shysters again, the waste, the opportunity cost of folks pursuing this like a mad crowd rather than being a little more thoughtful about where to go next. Not a great look for the "scene" methinks. Am I alone in this view?
Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?
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#2It's just the regular wantrepreneurs wave when a new shiny thing is released, we had the same with crypto, give it a few months they'll crawl back from where they came
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#4Yes, many people are feeling AI fatigue. AI can be overwhelming and many people feel like they are being bombarded with information that they don't understand. People are also concerned about how AI is being used and its potential implications for privacy and security.
Sorry, I couldn't help; that is the ChatGPT response to your question. More informatively, AI is clearly at the height of inflated expectations. It will provide a helpful tool. However, it will not push people out of jobs. Furthermore, right now it gives a much better search experience than Google, as it is not yet filled with ads or has been gamed extensively by SEO. It is doubtful this will stay like this in the future.
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#5I think it’s less like the crypto craze than the PC, web, or smartphone “crazes”, where businesses starting incorporating each of the above into everything.
In other words, if you’re fatigued already, I have some bad news regarding the rest of your life.
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#6ChatGPT is great, but it's being hyped up so much right now. We've got AI bros coming in the scene trying to sell everybody a new product. Before the crypto craze, it was big data. I probably missed something in between.
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#7We are not there yet. And crypto is not dead, too.
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#8Yes, many people are feeling AI fatigue. AI can be overwhelming and many people feel like they are being bombarded with information that they don't understand. People are also concerned about how AI is being used and its potential implications for privacy and security. Sorry, I couldn't help; that is the ChatGPT response to your question. More informatively, AI is clearly at the height of inflated expectations. It wi…
I could tell by the start of the second sentence.
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#9You are hardly alone, but you are also likely in the midst of an actual paradigm shift, so the "ecosystem" does what ecosystems do. ie: herds stampede, flocks flock, scavengers scavenge, parasites uhh parasite.
It will be increasingly tiresome until it becomes commonplace, then the disastrous consequences will become the next tedium.
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#10It seems to part of a trend to prompt us and in some ways mold us into giving responses, under the probably sincere guise of convenience, like the famous Word paper clip. I think some find that useful, but it does tend to take away agency. This may be the slide to the AI's taking over :-)