"Unavailable" Well of course there is, it's one the most exciting new technologies we've had in a long time. For so many years all the best models could do was identify handwritten digits, then semi-recently identify subjects in photos and now more recently (all of a sudden, really) generate beautiful and detailed images from plain English as well as converse in English and perform a variety of tasks to varying succe…
I left the machine hosting this small enough to see what posting to HN would do to it - rescaling it now :)
I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…
I see 3 kind of people, all common on HN: - The luddites: it's just hype. - The doomers: AI will kill us all. - The AI indie hackers: dunno about AI, I'm trying to make money with it. Somehow the intersection is right: AI is not really smart, but it will replace a lot of human activity anyhow.
> Somehow the intersection is right: AI is not really smart, but it will replace a lot of human activity anyhow.
Which will really show how much busywork we humans do in a lot of areas. If -- before AI is "smart" -- it can impact humanity.. well, i feel it says more about our current society foundations than it does AI heh.
So, this site, which is for 'hackers' ostensibly should probably like to see articles about computer science and computer science related issues. I know that's what I come to this site for. If you post articles about AI, that seems legit. As long as they aren't 'how to make a million dollars over lunch using ChatGPT' I'm perfectly fine talking about it here
"Unavailable" Well of course there is, it's one the most exciting new technologies we've had in a long time. For so many years all the best models could do was identify handwritten digits, then semi-recently identify subjects in photos and now more recently (all of a sudden, really) generate beautiful and detailed images from plain English as well as converse in English and perform a variety of tasks to varying succe…
I left the machine hosting this small enough to see what posting to HN would do to it - rescaling it now :)
Ha ha ha, free load test. Don't forget to $$$cale it down, later :)
I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…
I see 3 kind of people, all common on HN: - The luddites: it's just hype. - The doomers: AI will kill us all. - The AI indie hackers: dunno about AI, I'm trying to make money with it. Somehow the intersection is right: AI is not really smart, but it will replace a lot of human activity anyhow.
There's also a lot of faux-intellectual attention grifters who don't really have any beliefs other than whatever the local kool-aid is and will say whatever gets the number in the top right to go up because that makes monkey brain feel good.
These types of participants are the most easily simulated with AI because they're (whether they know it or not) just optimizing for a variable, something that existing AI tech is pretty good at so I expect their numbers to explode before the other three types you listed.
"Unavailable" Well of course there is, it's one the most exciting new technologies we've had in a long time. For so many years all the best models could do was identify handwritten digits, then semi-recently identify subjects in photos and now more recently (all of a sudden, really) generate beautiful and detailed images from plain English as well as converse in English and perform a variety of tasks to varying succe…
Agreed! This might be the fastest moving tech area right now, so it makes sense that it's generating a lot of news and interest.
I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…
I see 3 kind of people, all common on HN: - The luddites: it's just hype. - The doomers: AI will kill us all. - The AI indie hackers: dunno about AI, I'm trying to make money with it. Somehow the intersection is right: AI is not really smart, but it will replace a lot of human activity anyhow.
For what it's worth, and at the risk of sounding like I'm nitpicking, traditional Luddism is not dismissal of technology as overhyped or smoke-and-mirrors. Quite the opposite; the technology is recognized as very real and very impactful. The question instead becomes, "what happens to us, the ones it replaces?". And at least in the original incarnation, given an insufficiently satisfying answer, you smash some looms up to try and slow the encroachment of automation.
I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…
Tags would help here, in that you could use them to filter out what you don't want to see. I've asked many times for HN to allow tagging, but my sense is that it's never going to happen. Another idea is to use a spam filter on an RSS feed of HN articles. I did this decades ago for my personal feed, using bayesean spam filters, and it worked well enough. Finally, you could use an AI to filter for you.
If the content is thought-provoking or interesting, then it doesn't matter. Usually there's a goal for human-human interaction. I am not sure the goal is any different for human-bot interaction. Persuasion or marketing or charming? Not sure what else is there.
Interpersonal relationships end up benefitting a community in some manner, e.g., maybe you make a friend via your online interaction etc. I can imagine human-bot friendship to be equally fruitful and fulfilling. The issue is that bots in their current state don't exist outside their realm, and they are always someone else's slave. So absent those two features of bots, they could practically fulfill human roles in relationship. I don't think the thrall-like nature of bots impacts their ability to intiate or disseminate discourse.
I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…