We're in the middle of an AI hype. Much like with previous hypes (crypto etc), time will tell whether it was worth it. Unless you're chasing gold or selling shovels the only thing to do is just to wait it out.
Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?
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#12I had that since I was doing my masters in data science (5 years ago?). I love the models, the statistics and just the cleverness of everything but I just can't stand the "scene" anymore and moved almost entirely away from it. It's not as exciting as it was anymore.
When I started with the topic I watched a documentary with Joseph Weizenbaum ([1]) and felt weirded out that someone would step away from such an interesting and future-shaping topic. But the older I get, the more I feel that technology is not the solution to everything and AI might actually make more problems than it solves. I still think Bostrom's paperclip maximizer ([2]) is lacking fundamental understandings of the status quo and just generated unnecessary commotion.
[1] http://www.plugandpray-film.de/en/ [2] https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer
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#13We are not there yet. And crypto is not dead, too.
* not yet
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#14We are not there yet. And crypto is not dead, too.
How is crypto not dead?
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#15You may want to try to mentally reframe it so it doesn't bother you as much because it's not going away any time soon.
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#16https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
I think Machine learning already went through the trough of disillusion around 2016-2018 in computer vision and around 2018-2020 for voice assistants.
I think we're now past that and people can see that tools like ChatGPT are powerful enough to be applied in many pre existing contexts and industries in unpredictable and inventive ways without huge amounts of manual configuration, which makes it more exciting.
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#17If you're tired of AI now you're gonna hate where we are going. Strap in!
(…or take a good step back from the news cycle, check in once or twice a week instead of several times daily. News consumption reduction is good for mental health.)
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#19I never even fully recovered from the "Facebook, but for X" fad.
At least all the previous crazes didn't threaten to replace humans, so I suppose this tech hype bubble is arguably even more irritating.
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#20The world has some cool new toys and I'm glad people are playing with them. I hope it only becomes increasingly accessible with time. Yes, there's going to be a ton of snake oil and disappointments if you listen to the people looking to get rich quick, but I'm excited for what might come from it in the end.
In the meantime, all the attention and media is easing people into thinking about some difficult questions that we may end up having to deal with sooner than we'd like.
The hype can be annoying, and I'm sure they'll be suckers who lose a lot of money chasing it, but I'm also sure AI will get better, and be better understood too, as a result of all of the attention and attempts to shoehorn it into new roles and environments.