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The overconfidence/short sightedness on HN about AI is exhausting. Half the comments are some weird form of explaining how developers will be obsolete in five y
by halfmatthalfcat 1y ago
The overconfidence/short sightedness on HN about AI is exhausting. Half the comments are some weird form of explaining how developers will be obsolete in five years and how close we are to AGI.
- blamestross 1y agoNobody likes the idea that this is only "economical superior AI". Not as good as humans, but a LOT cheaper. The "It will just get better" is bubble baiting the investors. The tech companies learned from the past and they are riding and managing the bubble to extract maximum ROI before it pops. The reality is a lot of work done by humans can be replaced by an LLM with lower quality and nuance. The loss in sales/satisfaction/ect is more than offset by the reduced cost. The current model of LLMs are enshitification accelerators and that will have real effects.
- Aurornis 1y ago> Half the comments are some weird form of explaining how developers will be obsolete in five years and how close we are to AGI. I do not see that at all in this comment section. There is a lot of denial and cynicism like the parent comment suggested. The comments trying to dismiss this as just “some high school math problem” are the funniest example.
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- ionwake 1y agocongrats ur autistic, like me.
- halfmatthalfcat 1y agoYour bio made my day
- infecto 1y agoI don’t typically find this to be true. There is a definite cynicism on HN especially when it comes to OpenAI. You already know what you will see. Low quality garbage of “I remember when OpenAI was open”, “remember when they used to publish research”, “sama cannot be trusted”, it’s an endless barrage of garbage.
- kenjackson 1y agoI went through the thread and saw nothing that looked like this. I don’t think developers will be obsolete in five years. I don’t think AGI is around the corner. But I do think this is the biggest breakthrough in computer science history. I worked on accelerating DNNs a little less than a decade ago and had you shown me what we’re seeing now with LLMs I’d say it was closer to 50 years out than 20 years out.
- mikert89 1y agoits very clearly a major breakthrough for humanity
- NoOn3 1y agoPerhaps only for a very small part of humanity...
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- fouc 1y agoyou can add an /s to your earlier comment to make it more obvious it was a joke rather than a direct rebuttal that it got taken as
- halfmatthalfcat 1y agoOr I can leave it as is and see who is actually paying attention
- AtlasBarfed 1y agoGreatest breakthru in compsci. You mean the one that paves the way for ancient Egyptian slave worker economies? Or totalitarian rule that 1984 couldn't imagine? Or...... Worse? The intermediate classes of society always relied on intelligence and competence to extract money from the powerful. AI means those classes no longer have power.
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- halfmatthalfcat 1y agoIncredible how many HNers cannot see this comment for what it is.