Are You Tired of AI?

I’m tired of the hype, which is highly disconnected from reality, and I think that there is a long tail of tasks in information work that requires context, relationship that AI will struggle with for a while.

But it is also a fun and interesting technology that when used appropriately can reduce barriers around explorations and learning new things.

Unfortunately like most technology nowadays, engagement at the expense of everything else will continually eek away minimally at peoples’ remaining attention skills or worse by reducing peoples’ capacity to form relationships with real flawed humans.

I recently embarked on a personal journey of reading the Gnostic nag hammadi collection and a modern translation of the Christian gospels from a James Hillman multiplicity frame (and from my direct experience from thousands of hours of Buddhist meditation) and it’s been tremendously fruitful. I mark up the documents I read and then every so often discuss with an LLM and I find it a lovely experience. I’ve started seeing Christianity from a new frame (having been raised Presbyterian against my will when younger) as something much more lovely than I considered before. Christian mysticism reminds me a lot now of non-dual Buddhist traditions, and centering prayer has reignited a meditation practice stalled from a bad retreat experience years ago. LLMs didn’t give me anything I wasn’t giving them, they just acted as a mirror and helped bootstrap a weird interest I have that I’m now sharing with friends.

I also use LLMs in a very limited way when writing software:

1. As a rubber duck, and often I don’t even click enter, I figure out what I needed by writing it down.

2. For explorations of new concepts I’m not yet familiar with, like a glorified search engine.

I'm not tired of AI itself.

What does get old is the barrage of hyped-up projects that are a veneer-thin layer over an existing AI of one of the big players. Everybody is rushing to get something, anything out there. Nothing of value, but the hype, oh man, it's insane.

This is blockchain all over again. In the end there will be a few useful applications for AI, but at the moment it is the wild west in attention grabbing.

I'm not tired of AI. I'm tired of the hype. Of the belief that it will take over everything. And most tired of seeing people doing the same shit we've been doing for decades, just now with AI. LLMs are truly something new. And I believe they will lead to completely new inventions and way of interacting with tech, eventually. But so far, people are acting like we have invented flying cars when all we have done is given people automatic transmissions.

Doesn't matter, AI will be bigger every year. People will need to get used to it.

I’m tired of not having a clear trajectory of where it will be in X amount of time and what industries it will impact, I’m studying CS and thought of it someday becoming an irrelevant degree is really disheartening and what’s worse is I’m not entirely sure what it means to be prepared if my fear is realized.

I think AI is the most exciting and important technology in development, and I never tire of hearing about it. But I'm looking to the future and the eventual advent of Strong AI / AGI / (or whatever you want to call it). Current LLM based AI is still pretty damn useful though, even if falling a bit short of our loftiest aspirations.

While I am a little tired of the majority of all news being on the subject of AI, I think it’s important to remember that it is arguably the biggest thing that’s happened to our industry since the Internet. Considering how many areas it can be applied to, and how many different ways it can be used within those individual areas. There is so much to be explored.

Also, no one is forcing us to read about it. I myself do not read much about it. I prefer to explore how to make use of AI within my field on my own, and occasionally I will read a post or article if it seems interesting enough.

From the social media I consume I'm kinda tired of the constant hate towards AI. It's a useful tool. It's not the devil, it saves me a lot of time that I can spend with my family and friends :)

Dang, crazy that AI content appears in front of your eyes when you turn off your computer and put your phone down.

Personally I can’t get enough of AI and AI hype. It’s nearly certainly going to be the biggest technological leap forward of my lifetime and it won’t be particularly close.

I find the recent hype about new models isn't borne out by the ever smaller gains being achieved. On occasion it just looks like desperation.

I’m getting tired of Big AI, but energized by local AI

I don't care about LLMs being integrated everywhere. It's a stupid idea but we can't prevent it. As for the AI-bros full of FOMO, they are wrong as usual. IF it stays as it is, anyone will learn to use those tools in a few hours (like Google in the past).

What pisses me off is the mountain of code that I will have to debug in the future because a bored lazy developer decided to take shortcuts. And I'm also annoyed that 50% of the posts on HN are selling subscriptions to dumb wrappers around the LLM du jour. "Subscribe to my birthday card generator web site $5 a month it's great" Fuck off.

Share the same feeling here.

I agree with you, unfortunately there's nothing anyone can do about it. HN is just AI News now. It's even becoming normal to post AI generated comments, no matter how often people complain, even though it's against the guidelines. Soon people will defend it with the same passion with which they do refusing to read past the title.

Maybe it's time to step away and find some better curated alternatives, or spend time on other things.