Are You Tired of AI?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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 :)

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.

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