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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?

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Post by sfpotter »

dual_dingo wrote: post #32

The "I" in AI is just complete bullshit and I can't understand why so many people are in a awe of a bit of software that chains words to another based on some statistical model. The sad truth is that ChatGPT is about as good an AI as ELIZA was in 1966, it's just better (granted: much better) at hiding its total lack of actual human understanding. It's nothing more than an expensive parlor trick, IMHO. Github CoPilot?…

“AI” isn’t bull shit, it’s correctly labeled. It’s intelligence which is artificial: i.e. fake, ersatz, specious, not genuine… It’s our fault for not just reading the label. (I absolutely agree with your post and your viewpoint, just to be clear!)

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?

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Post by bsaul »

I think this time is the good one. ChatGPT has reached a level where we finally can think of building actually useful products on top of "AI".

Note that nobody is pretending that ChatGPT is "true" intelligence (whatever that means), but i believe the excitement comes from seeing something that could have real application (and so, yes, everybody is going to pretend to have incorporated "AI" in their product for the next 2 years probably). After 50 years of unfulfilled hopes from the AI field, i don't think it's totally unfair to see a bit of (over)hype.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?

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Post by crubier »

I thought you were going to use "AI Fatigue" in the same sense as "JS Fatigue", and I was going to agree a lot.

I've got "AI Fatigue" not in the sense that it is overhyped, but just like "JS Fatigue": It is all very exciting, and new genuinely useful and impressive things are coming up all the time, but it's too much to deal with. I feel like it's difficult to start a product based on AI these days due to the feeling that it will become obsolete next week when something 10x better will come out.

Just like with JS Fatigue back in the days, the reasonable solution for me is something like "Let the dust settle a bit before going in the latest cool thing"

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?

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Post by Diggsey »

sfpotter wrote: post #41
dual_dingo wrote: post #32

The "I" in AI is just complete bullshit and I can't understand why so many people are in a awe of a bit of software that chains words to another based on some statistical model. The sad truth is that ChatGPT is about as good an AI as ELIZA was in 1966, it's just better (granted: much better) at hiding its total lack of actual human understanding. It's nothing more than an expensive parlor trick, IMHO. Github CoPilot?…

“AI” isn’t bull shit, it’s correctly labeled. It’s intelligence which is artificial: i.e. fake, ersatz, specious, not genuine… It’s our fault for not just reading the label. (I absolutely agree with your post and your viewpoint, just to be clear!)

"Artificial" is not synonymous with "fake". "Fake" implies a level of deception.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?

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Post by morelisp »

nunodonato wrote: post #36
dual_dingo wrote: post #32

The "I" in AI is just complete bullshit and I can't understand why so many people are in a awe of a bit of software that chains words to another based on some statistical model. The sad truth is that ChatGPT is about as good an AI as ELIZA was in 1966, it's just better (granted: much better) at hiding its total lack of actual human understanding. It's nothing more than an expensive parlor trick, IMHO. Github CoPilot?…

I can say with a certain degree of confidence that you haven't actually used CoPilot daily.

This is such a bullshit answer. No, I don't use it daily because I tried it for a couple hours and it suggested nothing useful and several harmful. Why would I keep using it?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?

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Post by smcl »

I feel the same way about the rapid proliferation of this latest generation of AI tech as I did when crypto began to take off: "this is interesting, but it will not deliver on the promises or live up to the hype, and there will be a lot of grifters and bad actors who will give the tech a bad name".

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?

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Post by williamcotton »

indigoabstract wrote: post #37

ChatGPT is, of course, a great piece of software, but the huge hype is probably what it will be best remembered for. Also, since currently, AI is the exclusive playground of big corporations, to me it's a bit puzzling how some people can get so excited (and maintain that excitement) over something that they cannot control and have little hope of building it by themselves. I guess some are just more in love with techn…

I assume that there will be an open and freely available model as large as ChatGPT within a year or so. Training costs are prohibitive but what about NSF grants?
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