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And actually it’s funny: self-driving cars and cryptocurrency are continuing to advance dramatically in real life but there are hardly any front page HN stories about them anymore. Shows the power of AI as a topic that crowds out others. And possibly reveals the trendy nature of the HN attention span.
And when you critizise AI you get downvotes. Non-AI posts rarely get any upvotes. Sad times...
What I found insightful about this article was the framing of another article cited. > " This pretty negative post topping Hacker News last month sparked these questions, and I decided to find some answers, of course, using AI" The pretty negative post cited is https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ . I went ahead to read it, and found it, imo, fair. It's not making any direct pretty negative claims about AI,…
I felt the same. I also definitely don't see the cited article as a "pretty negative post".
Though it does sort of show the Overton window that a pretty bland argument against always believing some rich dudes buckets as negative even in the sentiment analysis sense.
I think a lot of people have like half their net worth in NVIDIA stock right now.
its in the running for the biggest technological change maybe in the last 100 years? whats so confusing about this, thinking machines have been invented
It certainly looks like thinking
I am so floored that at least half of this community, usually skeptical to a fault, evangelizes LLMs so ardently. Truly blows my mind.
I’m open to them becoming more than a statistical token predictor, and I think it would be really neat to see that happen.
They’re nowhere close to anything other than a next-token-predictor.
its in the running for the biggest technological change maybe in the last 100 years? whats so confusing about this, thinking machines have been invented
i don't understand people who seem to have strongly motivated reasoning to dismiss the new tech as just a token predictor or stochastic parrot. it's confusing the means with the result, it's like saying Deep Blue is just search, it's not actually playing chess, it doesn't understand the game—like that matters to people playing against it.
And when you critizise AI you get downvotes. Non-AI posts rarely get any upvotes. Sad times...
Just to make sure, which part of HN are you looking at? Because at least what I managed to count at this very moment on the front page (page 1), there are 24 non-AI and non-LLM related topics out of 30. Is that rare?
ETA: I am only partly joking. It's abundantly clear that the VC energy shifted away from crypto as people who were presenting as professional and serious turned out to be narcissists and crooks. Of course the money shifted to the technology that was being deliberately marketed as hope for humanity. A lot of crypto/NFT influencers became AI influencers at that point.
(The timings kind of line up, too. People can like this or not like this, but I think it's a real factor.)
My intuition is that we moved through the hype cycle far faster than mainstream. When execs were still peaking, we were at disillusionment.