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This article is lazy and contains very little value. I'm convinced the people commenting here have not read it.
by jklinger410 3y ago
This article is lazy and contains very little value. I'm convinced the people commenting here have not read it.
- brigadier132 3y agoCynicism is a cheap way to appear smart and dumb people lap it up. So I'm not surprised it's upvoted to the top of HN.
- sanderjd 3y agoThis is true, but the article is also right about the current state of AI apps. I can't wait for the hype to die down, for the nonsense to die out, and for the signal to noise ratio to shoot up. There is tons of real signal in the space! Pure cynicism on it is not warranted. But it's also reasonable to point out how much noise there is at the moment.
- sebzim4500 3y agoIt may have no content, but it is very easy to read and confirms the pre-existing biases of nerdy contrarians. It will go far here.
- rchaud 3y agoIs it possible that your own bias towards AI makes you somewhat blind to the scale of garbage AI tools being shoved in people's faces daily?
- sebzim4500 3y agoAnything is possible, but it doesn't change the veracity of my comment.
- sanderjd 3y agoTend to agree about the article's content (though there are a couple good jokes), but what people are commenting on here is the thesis of the article, that the point we're at in the "generative AI" hype cycle is noisily creating a lot of useless crap.
- rchaud 3y agoIt's a criticism of the marketing behind common B2B AI tools. What's lazy about it? You don't see an enormous mismatch between the promises and reality?
- jklinger410 3y agoProbably the section where it uses a hand drawn paint.exe example as what AI commonly outputs. Just spitballing.
- gwern 3y agoI'm not convinced he read his own materials, when he describes a painting - which is famous for showing pickpocketing of people distracted by a magic trick - as > This dude is looking up like ‘no way he did that without god's help’ No, the dude is looking up so as to distract people and avoid signaling what he's doing, while he steals the wallet of the rube bending over in front of him... (Which is extremely on point and topical for OP's thesis, yet apparently does not realize it.)