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So much of the discussion seems to be along the lines of “yeah it’s broken now, but it’s just the start, it’ll get better” I can list so many things that were
by Gigachad 3y ago
So much of the discussion seems to be along the lines of “yeah it’s broken now, but it’s just the start, it’ll get better”
I can list so many things that were hyped up the same way 10 years ago that still aren’t revolutionising the world today.
Maybe it will get super good really fast. Or maybe it’s the next self driving trucks or 3D tv where solving the last of the problems is much harder than the first 90%.
- CynicusRex 3y agoGive us that list, please?
- poisonborz 3y agoCrypto/blockchain. VR. Chat assistants. Or to heckle HN, Rust.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoApple Siri.
- Jensson 3y agoIBM Watson.
- sokoloff 3y agoIVR trees on phone call centers, which evolved into: Chatbots in front of customer care agents.
- bawolff 3y agoEvery battery breakthrough. Every previous AI hype-train (Eliza did not replace therapists)
- andruby 3y agoAgreed on the AI. Battery though, we have seen the price (USD/KWh) go down every year, and the energy density (KWh/kg) increase every year. Research articles are usually things that take years to trickle down into the mass production. And by then the hopes or lab results no longer translate, or they've evolved into improvements and savings that are harder to link back to their original source.
- arp242 3y agoMy comment from last week is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38920297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38920297
- thefz 3y ago> I can list so many things that were hyped up the same way 10 years ago that still aren’t revolutionising the world today. The problem with it is that it is being marketed as the do-all productivity enhancer. It is not. There are some fields in which it excels, but are all rather very specific (think summarizing a long document).
- godelski 3y agoI've a few times given an analogy on her about how it's like these companies are selling really delicious chocolate and then just add shit on top of it saying its a bonus. I don't get the hype, especially when there's something quite useful in there. Why is everyone overselling everything? Not by a little, but by a lot? I feel like it's good for short term rewards but terrible for long term.
- Gigachad 3y agoI feel like even in that specific task, it's only really good when you care more about processing huge amounts of data over accuracy. I wouldn't trust it to summarize a single PDF research paper, but it would be fine as a search engine looking over millions of documents, or trying to summarize the common points in thousands of user feedbacks. Something like "Find me documents that talk about achieving x using y process". If it finds a few irrelevant ones or misses some, its ok and still provided value by searching far more things than you ever could manually.