anthonyrstevens

The solution is: don't read it

>> people don't copy the speech of people outside their group who they don't identify with

I don't think this is true. Words and phrases from specific sub-cultures filter across to the broader culture all the time.

Example: bling, hater, player, stan, flex all had origins in Black hip-hop culture but now are used generally at least in the U.S.

People who are unable to comment on the underlying technology or capabilities because they don't know or don't care to inform themselves sure can feel good that they have an opinion on pelican art.

>> this is all that managers know to do: take a metric and try to optimize the heck out of it. They don't care about research, technology

This is not true. It is needless negative hyperbole that IMHO doesn't belong on HN.

Evergreen comment around here

Who are these "AI cultists" that you have asked your strawman generator to conjure up out of thin air?

This assumes the worst of the OP and is absolutely a very poor comment. Do better.

2023: "AI is useless" 2026: "One of these solutions to dozens of previously-intractable problems at the frontier of human knowledge MIGHT be incorrect"

How deep must your head be buried in the sand to trot out this comment, on this thread.

Companies will blame layoffs on literally anything in order to disguise the real reasons, if it suits their interests.

Do you know what "sorry" means in the context of Lean?

Why is this important? Do you not think that at some point, probably sooner rather than later, math researchers across the world will have access to similar capabilities?

This is sort of like discounting putting humans in space because only a few nations have the means to actually do it at the moment.

"I still don't like AI, and I'm 'just asking questions'."

This is great.

>> What happens when politicians can no longer lie without being caught out live on air?

A 5-second delay on a politician's presser. Any lies will be muted in real time and the actual facts presented onscreen. Continue to lie enough, and the politician gets unstreamed.

>> slopdrop

Really? Do better.

In a couple short years we've moved from "AIs can't do anything useful" to "they're lying about the actual cost of the innovative breakthroughs!".

I know that the former and the latter may be discrete subsets of the anti-AI crowd, but come on.

I don't think the analogy worked. It contained giant axes, and a giant grinder, and the OP shoehorned both into an unrelated discussion about math.

The OP would never, EVER, have had the opportunity to talk with the mythical Japanese math genius over tea. Their story is a fantasy, probably meant to help the OP ascribe meaning to an otherwise scary existence. Which may be at the root of the anti-AI brigade's unconcious motiviations.

I don't know, I work in a field that could be seen as the logical culmination of the Industrial Revolution (to this point) - highly technical, machine assisted knowledge work - and I have community, culture, and humanity in my working life.

Weavers don't have dibs on those intangibles.

This is maybe the 2nd least valuable comment in the thread. Congratulations. Go back to Reddit.

The anti-AI arguments keep morphing, as many could have probably predicted. Starting with "AI can't do anything" to "AI can't do anything useful" to ... "AI breakthroughs are proprietary!#@!!!".

I've seen more goalposts move in the last 3 years than maybe in my whole (lengthy) career up to that point.

This is maybe the lowest-quality comment on a thread full of them. Do better.

This. There's a large subset of people who, seemingly consciously, try to delegitimize anything related to AI by calling it* "slop".

* even pretty amazing advances like this one

Just think of all the gaps in that space and ponder how we get from known to unknown

My recent pet peeve: everything is a "debacle".

Echopraxia could have been so great but missed for me. It felt rushed or under-implemented.

In all seriousness, I couldn't realiably tell you that this comment didn't come from (say) a Russian disinformation bot. When did HN become the Twilight Zone of content-free consipiracy spam?

And atoms

/s surely

>> nor should we assume OpenAI is working on anything other than what has some public traces

Using that reasoning, I am only thinking about whatever comes out of my mouth or gets typed on my keyboard, and nothing else. Ludicrous on its face.