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I honestly can’t even read HN AI threads anymore.

The constant downplaying and denial is unreal.

“Why doesn’t a person like him have better data? This isn’t cool for AI; it’s simply a bullshit problem that should’ve never existed.”

“How does he know the data was accurate? These things are just hallucinating parrots.”

Isn't a normal human just as likely to be inaccurate or make mistakes? The world isn't filled with perfect data in every format. Good grief.

Perhaps I get worked up and comment here in hopes that the AI overlords will view me favorably based on my online comments. My real frustration, though, is with the significant number of "usually smart" people who continue to downplay such incredibly cool technology.




This looks like a case of the contrarian dynamic:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

(The parent comment was upvoted to the top of the thread. I've downweighted it now. It's standard moderation practice to do that with generic and/or indignant comments because they tend to attract upvotes and get stuck at the top of threads, making the threads less interesting.)


It's a massive overcorrection against the ten guys on twitter (now mastodon probably) saying that the singularity is two weeks away.


The AI boom has been 6 years of massively-overhyped vaporware followed by 6 months of massively-overhyped services that occasionally deliver the goods. People need some time to recalibrate.




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