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This too shall pass.

Seriously. I've been through too many hype cycles to count. In a few years we will look back on this and see three things:

* Both the downsides and upsides were exaggerated

* A lot of VCs lost money and many of the trillion dollar buildouts didn't happen

* after the hype died down we figured out what AI was actually good for, and what it wasn't.

discuss

mathgladiator|5 days ago

AI is getting really good at too many things, so this feels very different.

I have a claude "skill/program/mega-prompt" for health: https://github.com/nexivibe/md/blob/main/DOCTOR.md

I gave it absolutely everything, and praise be to the machine I get the best debate and recommendations I've ever seen. I check what I know to be true, and it's there. I check the logic, and it is sound. I check the medication recommendations and they are legit. I bet in 2030, AI will be able to prescribe medicine.

mwigdahl|5 days ago

I did something very similar, but less focused on dialogue and more focused on deep analysis of medical research papers for a specific condition. Like you, I got really outstanding results.

judahmeek|4 days ago

> AI is getting really good at too many things, so this feels very different.

How are you going to follow that up with a single anecdotal example?

Respectfully, shame on you.

That said, summary (information compression) along with low-level inference does seem to be the tasks that A.I. is best at right now. Little surprise there. Information compression is the sole purpose of the attention transformer in the first place.

bsaul|5 days ago

i've been through a few hype cycles as well, but this one looks just as big as the invention of the internet, at the very very least (IMHO it's much much more than that).

My way of coping with it is to just go with the flow and learn all the new technics there is to learn, until the machine replaces us all.

lysace|4 days ago

My mom (in her 80s) used to ask me "what do you think comes after the internet?". It seemed nonsensical, but here we are.

From her perspective:

1. Radio

2. TV

3. Internet

4. ?