@dang - HN tearing itself apart over use of AI isn't conducive to a strong cohesive community.
Nobody here is at fault, we're in very trying times - we need to adjust with patience and consideration.
Use of AI to launch rapid prototypes is like breadboarding a new product. It has a place but it's moving so fast that it's hard to lock down at the moment.
No point everyone throwing excess cortisol in this direction. <3
Very true, I see people increasingly polarized on this topic. I also see it in the rollercoaster of votes on my post.
If it wasn't clear, I think we're (as a society) destroying ourselves by believing in all this generative AI crap, even contrary to the evidence of how wrong it often is, the hallucinations, the awful quality etc.
I think we're witnessing the death of intellect: when you discard the evidence in favor of something that only looks right but is nonsense, there's no telling where it will end. If your profession requires you to think and produce output accordingly, but suddenly nobody thinks wrong answers matter, then your profession no longer exists.
Standing up against it and refusing to accept any form of AI anywhere is the only reasonable thing to do. And I don't know if it will make a difference.
Humans are better than AI at flagging AI and where they fail is where the content doesn't cause a "disgust" signal - so wouldn't it be useful instead to have a flag as AI feature?
Remember that OpenAI ran statistics on ChatGPT conversations and found development related conversations were in the low 10s https://openai.com/index/how-people-are-using-chatgpt/ - the people who enjoy rolling everything these days is representative of our echo-chamber.
My opinion is it seems counter to what made Apple so successful in the first place: second mover advantage, see where everyone else fails and plug the gap.
You're right on the liability front - Apple still won because everyone bought their hardware and their margins are insanely good. It's not that they're sitting by waiting to become irrelevant, they're playing the long game as they always do.
It is exactly the same metric. Intelligence is not magic, be it organic or LLM-based. You still need to go through the training set data to make the any useful extrapolations about the unknown inputs.
Thank you so much, I _really_ appreciate this first, positive feedback. I only posted this couple of hours ago and my goal is to reach the front page. Here's the Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851589
I don't want to believe you are right. Not that I refuse to...
You could be wrong, hopefully. I'll just remain optimistic.
It's good that critical thinking still exists to keep us all grounded.
Edit: I think you meant to replace AGI with ASI.
What we have now is approaching the ability to solve problems generally with considerable effort but super intelligence is definitely out of reach for the time being.
Nobody here is at fault, we're in very trying times - we need to adjust with patience and consideration.
Use of AI to launch rapid prototypes is like breadboarding a new product. It has a place but it's moving so fast that it's hard to lock down at the moment.
No point everyone throwing excess cortisol in this direction. <3
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