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Sure, databases didn't get as much hype but that's partly because they are old. Look at something more recent: "cloud", "social networking", "blockchain", "mob

by nl 2y ago

Sure, databases didn't get as much hype but that's partly because they are old. Look at something more recent: "cloud", "social networking", "blockchain", "mobile". Plenty of hype! Some delivered, some didn't.

1over137 2y ago
AI is old too.
- roywiggins 2y ago
  “In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.” (Minsky, 1970) https://aiws.net/the-history-of-ai/this-week-in-the-history-of-ai-at-aiws-net-marvin-minsky-was-quoted-in-life-magazine-in-from-three-to-eight-years-we-will-have-a-machine-with-the-general-intelligence-of-an-average-human-b/ https://aiws.net/the-history-of-ai/this-week-in-the-history-...
YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago
Which of those things claimed it would be "like the renaissance" or that we'd cure all diseases? In the clip I link above Hassabis says he hopes that in 10-15 years' time we'll be looking back on the way we do medicine today like the way they did it in the middle ages. In 10-15 years time. Modern medicine - you know, antibiotics, vaccines, transplants, radiotherapy, anti-retrovirals, the whole shebang, like medieval times. Are you saying - what are you saying? Who has said things like that ever before in the tech industry? Azure? Facebook? Ethereum? Who?
- nl 2y ago
  A quick search: "Blockchain will cure cancer": https://archive.trufflesuite.com/blog/blockchain-will-cure-cancer/ https://archive.trufflesuite.com/blog/blockchain-will-cure-c... "The Cloud will cure cancer": https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/cloud-will-cure-cancer/?guccounter=1 https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/cloud-will-cure-cancer/?gu... "Why The Cloud could hold the cure to all diseases" https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/why-cloud-could-hold-cure-diseases/ https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/why-cloud-could-hol... "Bitcoin is bigger than the renaissance": https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-is-bigger-than-the-renaissance-ddb93b2dca74 https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-is-bigger-than-the-renaissanc... I could go on, but you get the idea.
- roywiggins 2y ago
  Ray Kurzweil?
layman51 2y ago
I’m not sure how hyped up databases were during their advent, but what do you mean “by partly because they are old?” The phonograph prototypes that were made by Thomas Alva Edison are old and they were hyped in a way. People called him the “Wizard of Menlo Park” for his work because they were seeing machines that could talk (or at least reproduce sounds in the same way photographs let you reproduce sights.)
UncleMeat 2y ago
Even blockchain didn't have the degree of hype as this AI stuff. The CEO of Google said that AI would be as profound as fire in revolutionizing humanity. People are saying that it will replace all intellectual labor in the near term and then all physical labor soon afterwards.

by nl 2y ago

1over137 2y ago

AI is old too.

roywiggins 2y ago
“In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.” (Minsky, 1970) https://aiws.net/the-history-of-ai/this-week-in-the-history-of-ai-at-aiws-net-marvin-minsky-was-quoted-in-life-magazine-in-from-three-to-eight-years-we-will-have-a-machine-with-the-general-intelligence-of-an-average-human-b/ https://aiws.net/the-history-of-ai/this-week-in-the-history-...

YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago

Which of those things claimed it would be "like the renaissance" or that we'd cure all diseases? In the clip I link above Hassabis says he hopes that in 10-15 years' time we'll be looking back on the way we do medicine today like the way they did it in the middle ages. In 10-15 years time. Modern medicine - you know, antibiotics, vaccines, transplants, radiotherapy, anti-retrovirals, the whole shebang, like medieval times. Are you saying - what are you saying? Who has said things like that ever before in the tech industry? Azure? Facebook? Ethereum? Who?

nl 2y ago
A quick search: "Blockchain will cure cancer": https://archive.trufflesuite.com/blog/blockchain-will-cure-cancer/ https://archive.trufflesuite.com/blog/blockchain-will-cure-c... "The Cloud will cure cancer": https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/cloud-will-cure-cancer/?guccounter=1 https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/cloud-will-cure-cancer/?gu... "Why The Cloud could hold the cure to all diseases" https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/why-cloud-could-hold-cure-diseases/ https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/why-cloud-could-hol... "Bitcoin is bigger than the renaissance": https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-is-bigger-than-the-renaissance-ddb93b2dca74 https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-is-bigger-than-the-renaissanc... I could go on, but you get the idea.
roywiggins 2y ago
Ray Kurzweil?

layman51 2y ago

I’m not sure how hyped up databases were during their advent, but what do you mean “by partly because they are old?” The phonograph prototypes that were made by Thomas Alva Edison are old and they were hyped in a way. People called him the “Wizard of Menlo Park” for his work because they were seeing machines that could talk (or at least reproduce sounds in the same way photographs let you reproduce sights.)

UncleMeat 2y ago

Even blockchain didn't have the degree of hype as this AI stuff. The CEO of Google said that AI would be as profound as fire in revolutionizing humanity. People are saying that it will replace all intellectual labor in the near term and then all physical labor soon afterwards.