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Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

#81

AI has helped me rediscover my love of coding. It helps me write my emails for me, puts together my shopping list, and gives me advice on how to structure my day. AI tells me what to do. I don't have to fear my choices anymore, because AI makes the choices for me.

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Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

#83

There is no future for AI doomers. Bye bye dodos.

Far from “dooming”, AI currently has a major public image problem - it’s got a lower approval rating than the current President. Most people’s perception of AI is the lousy customer service chatbot, a phone tree that doesn’t work when they call customer service, and AI generated spam, scammy images, and so forth. Couple with that the frequent press about “AI is going to replace your job” and the public image problem…

Public image isn’t reality. Just because people can’t be bothered to learn about the productivity boost that AI provides for businesses: doesn’t mean that there aren’t any. Honestly this constant outrage and FUD is getting ridiculous. Don’t use it if you don’t like it. Some of us actually want to be more efficient.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

#84
post #9

What's "AI"? (I'm going to guess you mean generative AI such as image/video/text generation used to create slop on Facebook, but I really wish posts like this would clarify.)

Use the ample context clues or have AI explain it to you, but either way we don't need useless comments like these.

This response is uncalled for, you’re making things unnecessarily hostile.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

#85
post #17

One problem is that when people delegate tasks to AI, they don't themselves learn anything from doing the task -- not just in the general sense of personal improvement, but in the very concrete sense of "what is it that was produced". Before AI, when someone showed you a presentation or an Excel sheet, even if it was complete horseshit that they had made up, they knew what was in it: they knew more about it than you,…

Yes, the "desirable difficulties" are gone in many areas

Honestly, quite a tragedy for many. Myself, I have to be constantly fighting against this to slow myself down

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

#86

2001: I'm Sick of Internet Everything

Exactly. This inability to accept progress is going to lead some people to ruin. Open mindedness would do a lot of good for them. Try to develop a taste for the technology: learn to ignore irrational fear of something that’s just a tool.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

#87
post #78

Why though? It is the technology of today's times. 70s had microprocessors, 80s had languages and tools, 90s was about the internet, 00s was about e-commerce and then web2.0 and later iPhone, mobile/local/social, 15s-20s was gig and creator economy, blockchain, metaverse... and now its AI. If you are sick of reading about AI, what would you rather read/talk about?

Maybe I’m naive since most of that was before I was born, but a lot of the past topics you mentioned seem more interesting because the people talking about them (I assume) had interesting knowledge and opinions to share about them. AI is an extremely boring topic because the people most excited about it are “idea people” rather than people with interesting knowledge and expertise. And idea people are pretty draining to listen to for years on end.

Even the top post on HN about ChatGPT’s image generation is full of a bunch of comments just saying “wow this is epic”, “I can make so many mangas with this”, etc. Or a post about a new model where people are saying bland stuff like “this doesn’t write Typescript as well as Nut43-2.1-Max”. Compare those to a post about language design, for instance, and you’d see a lot more interesting discussion and opinions.

Just my opinion though. It seems like the more interesting topics in AI are related to its divisiveness, and even that is getting super old after years of it going on.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

#88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Far from “dooming”, AI currently has a major public image problem - it’s got a lower approval rating than the current President. Most people’s perception of AI is the lousy customer service chatbot, a phone tree that doesn’t work when they call customer service, and AI generated spam, scammy images, and so forth. Couple with that the frequent press about “AI is going to replace your job” and the public image problem…

Bot implementation quality is up to the engineer. It is not an inherent limitation of the LLM. Granted, management always comes in the way of a good deliverable. I ask people to vote with their wallet if the experience is lacking. AI replacing jobs is a good thing. I don't know why people want to keep doing stupid jobs that even a machine can do. As for their income, they should vote for politicians that give them be…

Yep, if you’re work can be automated so easily then you need to understand such work wasn’t as worthwhile as you thought.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

#89
post #74

AI has helped me rediscover my love of coding. It helps me write my emails for me, puts together my shopping list, and gives me advice on how to structure my day. AI tells me what to do. I don't have to fear my choices anymore, because AI makes the choices for me.

Sam and Dario were in the closet making AIs and I saw one of the AIs and the AI looked at me.

The AI looked at you?!

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

#90
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I literally guessed from the context clues in the (parentheses in my post).

Then why did you ask the question?

Because "I really wish posts like this would clarify".

I was making a point that saying "I hate AI" is intellectually lazy. The discourse here can be a whole lot better if people put more effort into clarity.

I want Hacker News to be a better place for technically sophisticated conversations than most of Reddit.

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