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Comment by EGreg | Hacker News Reader

But HN will love it a lot more than Blockchain. Won’t downvote every mention of AI :)

Yes, AI is getting a lot of hype right now. No, this is nothing like blockchain.

For something to be overhyped, it must have a hype level disproportionate to its value. Deep learning is generating a huge amount of real value and is solving real problems. When we were getting Superbowl ads for crypto, the value proposition wasn't there.

I didn't watch the superb owl... did we get AI ads this time?

I didn't watch the whole thing, but I remember one NFT ad and zero AI ads

None, but it's a little too early for them. Next year's Super Bowl could be peak AI ad.

Because it can actually generate some interesting and/or useful content, unlike 99% of Blockchain proposals that amount to "a database, but worse" in the best case and "fraud, but obscured by technobabble" in the worst case.

When the barrier was lowered, 99% of stuff in the Web 1.0 space was bullshit (remember <blink> and <marquee> tags?), and Web 2.0 was bullshit also (PHP developers making lots of crappy insecure stuff)... the 94th social network for cats and toasters, where they vacuum all your data and sell ads, or charge you hundreds of dollars for a feature that consists of changing one variable somewhere.

Sometimes it was fraud, other times it was just money-losing economics ("traction") where VCs would prop it up and then hoped to dump the stock on an eager public in an IPO before making a dollar in profit (SoftBank took this to the extreme). Other times it just led to monopolies that sucked up everyone's data, engaged in surveillance capitalism, distracted them at dinner and made everyone have the attention of a goldfish. Oh yeah and made them depressed and insecure, especially teenagers.

I'm not sure that's much better than Web3.

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