alt Hacker Newsevery other article these days on this site is about AI. And it's incredibly tedious and annoying.
Isn't it enough that clueless marketers who get their Tech knowledge from businessinsider and bloomberg are constantly harping on about AI.
Seems we as a community have resigned or given up in this battle against common sense. Maybe long ago. Still there should be some form of moderation penalizing these shill posts that only glorify AI as being the future, ... the same way that not everything about crypto or the blockchain ended up on the FP. Seems with AI we're looking the other way and are OK with it?
Or maybe it's me.
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Do you mean that cryptocurrency submissions were penalized that way? I recall them being about as annoying and similarly filling the front page with uninformative submissions, but have not heard of such penalties. Same as with other subjects during their hype waves.
How does any of that apply to this particular article? Isn't a broader historical perspective exactly what's needed if you want to be free from the immediate hype cycle?
One of my biggest irritations with HN comment sections is how frequently people seem to want to ignore the specific interesting thing an article is about and just express uninteresting and repetitive generic opinions about the general topic area instead.
It's a CACM article. Without having read this one, I'd say CACM articles on HN are absolutely appropriate.
It's been a common problem with HN. I remember when NodeJS came out, it was exactly the same, and then with all the crypto-craze.
Nah, it’s not just you.
AI is really neat. I don’t understand how a business model that makes money pops out on the other end.
At least crypto cashed out on NFTs for a while.
Well AI probably is the future. Might not necessarily be LLMs (I personally don't rate LLMs) but enough people are interested in it nowadays that it's almost certain AGI will happen in our lifetimes.
Because almost once a quarter there's a big release that raises the expectations for top AI companies. Which brings up discussions, new articles and eventually posts in the front page.
2020-2022 HN front page was full of crypto news, mostly in negative light, but still. And before that there was more hot bubble topics. It's very usual.
My problem is the abuse of the term AI to a point where it has lost all meaning. I'd be all for a ban on the term in favour of the specific method driving the 'intelligence' as I would rule out some of qualifying simple because they are not capable of making intelligent decisions, even if they can make complex ones (looking at you random forest).
It's you.
The AI discussions can indeed be repetitive and tiresome here, especially for regulars, but they already seem to be downweighted and clear off the front page quite fast.
But it's a major focus of the industry right now, involving a genuinely novel and promising new class of tools, so the posts belong here and the high engagement that props them up seems expected.