Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?

Well, I am old enough to remember the cryptowinters of 2015, 2018, and early 2020. Not the first, not the last. BTC/USD is still around 22,000, which looks very much not zero to me.

I'm working on a project that uses GPT-3 and similar stuff, even before the hype. I think the overhype is really tiring.

Just like with most of these hype cycles there is an actual useful interesting technology, but the hype beasts take it way overboard and present it as if it's the holy grail or whatever. It's not.

That's tiring, and really annoying.

It's incredibly cool technology, it is great at certain use cases, but those use cases are somewhat limited. In case of GPT-3 it's good at generative writing, summarization, information search and extraction, and similar things.

It also has plenty of issues and limitations. Lets just be realistic about it, apply it where it works, and let everything else be. Now it's becoming a joke.

Also, a lot of products I've seen in the space are really really bad and I'm kinda worried AI will get a scam/shitty product connotation.

Yes and it is sad because I see people trying to find problems for ChatGPT and say this is the future.. but the industries they are targeting have such a wide variety of concrete problems for a startup to solve.

Well most products today need to be adaptive and handle complex states, even if there's a few if sentences in there handling something in an intelligent way that's AI, it's a broad term after all. The problem is that it's also become a marketing buzzword.

That’s Capitalism. AI is the new growth frontier, so it’s all you are hearing about. Seems like LLMs and generators are genuine innovations. But don’t lose sight that these innovations are driven by the Capitalist need to concentrate more surplus value into fewer hands. This is no different than programable looms, etc. of the past, except now they will try to automate immaterial/“intellectual” work. It remains to be seen if these technologies will succeed at that, but the Capitalists are compelled to try, and we will be forced to live with the wreckage.