alt Hacker NewsSomeone should document these cringe comments for posterity. As a warning to future generations.
It's too bad the previous singularity cult manias 10 and 15 years ago weren't documented and are lost in time.
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azan_ • today at 10:42 AM
If you look how much goalpost has been moved over the last decade it'd turn out that AI cultist were right more frequently than AI sceptics.
esailija • today at 7:06 AM
You know in the future they are just going to say it's different this time right?
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Cthulhu_ • today at 7:30 AM
I'm sure HN cult comments from 10 and 15 years ago are still up though, the Dropbox thread is frequently linked to.
IshKebab • today at 9:31 AM
Just search for "stochastic parrot" on Algolia. Plenty of "BuT iTs NoT rEaLlY iNtElIgEnT" comments...
Ten years ago, most of the skeptics in these threads would have said the success of AlphaFold 3 was impossible.