I cant believe people still arent grasping the profound implications of computers that can talk and make decisions.
I don't think anyone underestimates that and a lot of people can't wait to see it.
After the AI boom: what might we be left with?
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#12I cant believe people still arent grasping the profound implications of computers that can talk and make decisions.
You can have a bubble, and still have profound impact from AI. See also the dotcom boom.
who cares about a bubble? we are on the cusp of intelligent machines. The implications will last for hundreds of years, maybe impact the trajectory of humanity
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How do we make money on it, especially if massive amounts of the population lose their jobs?
dude again, we have computers that can talk and make decisions. We have birthed something here. We have something, this is big.
Even by HN standards, this is just an incredible comment. You’d think it’s satire, but I doubt it.
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#15I cant believe people still arent grasping the profound implications of computers that can talk and make decisions.
The self checkout machines at the supermarket can talk and make decisions. I don't see them revolutionising the world.
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#16I believe the next step will be robotics and getting A.I. to interact with the physical world at human fidelity.
Maybe we can finally have a Rosie from the Jetsons.
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#17He writes as if only datacenters and network equipment remain after the AI bubble bursts. Like there won't be any AI models anymore, nothing left after the big training runs and trillion-dollar R&D, and no inference served.
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#18I cant believe people still arent grasping the profound implications of computers that can talk and make decisions.
From a software development perspective, the more I think of it, the more I understand it's just another abstraction layer. Before that came high level languages and JVM of sorts, before that came the compiler, before that came the assembler.
Outside of the software world it's mostly a (much!) better Google.
Between now and a Star Trek world, there's so much to build that we can use any help we can get.
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#19I cant believe people still arent grasping the profound implications of computers that can talk and make decisions.
The self checkout machines at the supermarket can talk and make decisions. I don't see them revolutionising the world.
think bigger, because this certainly is. change on the order of years means nothing
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#20I cant believe people still arent grasping the profound implications of computers that can talk and make decisions.
How do we make money on it, especially if massive amounts of the population lose their jobs?
You know the quote "it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism"? Well, AI has allowed me to start imagining the end of capitalism. I'm not claiming we're necessarily very close, but I can clearly see the way from here to a post-scarcity society.